Rearing Swarmer

Rearing Swarmer
(Erebomancerxia detritiphagus)
Information
Creator	Ramul Other
Week/Generation	17/116
Habitat	LadyM Ocean (Sea Floor), Rhodix Vents
Size	5 cm Long
Primary Mobility	Unknown
Support	Unknown
Diet	Detritivore, Scavenger
Respiration	Unknown
Thermoregulation	Ectotherm
Reproduction	Sexual, Spawning, Two Sexes
Taxonomy
Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species	Eukaryota Mancerxa Phylloichthyia Cycloptifabae Refulgicaudata Erebomancerxidae Erebomancerxia Erebomancerxia detritiphagus

Ancestor:	Descendants:
Dark Swarmer	Sparkle Swarmer

The rearing swarmer split from its ancestor. Some dark swarmers in the LadyM Ocean discovered the seafloor detritus as a food source and their descendants adapted to a life feeding almost exclusively on it. Rearing swarmers swallow sediments, digest the nutrients in it and spit the remnants out. They lost their photosynthetic abilities completely and have a camouflage pattern that hides them from predators using bioluminescence. If disturbed, rearing swarmers will erect their front bodies to show the eye spots on their undersides, sprawl their hind tentacles and flash up the light organs on them, sometimes they will throw up their ingested sediments at their attacker. Their luminescent organs are usually inactive and hidden inside skin folds.

They crawl on the ground most of the time, using their claw-like leaf fin appendages and swim rarely, although they sometimes travel long distances to reach carcasses of bigger animals lying on the ocean floor. Their single eye is atrophying and mainly used to detect flashes of other rearing swarmers; smell is their primary sense.