Muckamor
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Splitting from its ancestor, the muckamor has taken to the deeper waters of Sagan 4. Gone now is the bright yellow and purple colorations so typically associated with its lineage, replaced now instead by an assortment of darker hues that help them to blend in with the sand they hide upon, and which can be altered depending upon the texture and coloration of the substrate. Gone also are the bioluminescent patches on their tails, which in their new environment made them stand out. Because of this, they now rely more upon their sense of smell to find mates, or merely wait for chance encounters, such as a great carcass from above has crashed upon the seafloor. A lyngbakr corpse can attract many muckamors from miles about, and will often serve as mating grounds for weeks or even months at a time, depending on how long the food lasts. Other than this, there are not many changes between them and their ancestors, though their gills have moved further up along their backs, allowing them to burry themselves deeper into the sand and muck without suffocating.
Muckamors are sluggish creatures, moving slowly along the seafloor as they seek out prey. With the aid of their sensitive barbels, they can sense when food, such as various burrowing scuttler species and tunnel-forming krillpedes, are hidden just beneath the surface of the sand. With a flurry of movement, a cloud of disturbed sediments, and a few crunches of its crushing jaws, the muckamor is then satiated with whatever it has caught.