Steiner Squaph
| Steiner Squaph | ||
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| (Youyuqingwa shùqideyaobai) | ||
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| Information | ||
| Creator | Mnidjm Other | |
| Week/Generation | 27/167 | |
| Habitat | Sparks Tropical Beach, Steiner Archipelago Tropical Beaches, Steiner Archipelago Subtropical Beaches, Steiner Tropical Mangal, Steiner Subtropical Mangal, Steiner Tropical Rainforest, Steiner Tropical Rainforest Archipelago, Steiner Subtropical Rainforest Archipelago, Russ Subtropical Coast, Sparks Tropical Coast | |
| Size | 11 cm long | |
| Primary Mobility | Unknown | |
| Support | Internal (cellulose and lignin rich pseudo-cartilage (limbs, trunks, and gills)) | |
| Diet | Adult: Nectivore (Lurtrees, Lurtress, Lurpincer, Sum-Humgrove), Frugivore (Qupe Tree, Fuzzweed), Herbivore (Redmosses, Orangemosses, Chainswarmers, Basilliphyta); Juvenile: Herbivore (Redmosses, Orangemosses, Chainswarmers, Basilliphyta, Globby Boneflora (young), Bonebuoy (young)), Nectivore (Sum-Humgrove) | |
| Respiration | Juvenile, Active (Gills), passive (transcutaneous): Adult, Active (Lung), passive (transcutaneous) | |
| Thermoregulation | Ectotherm | |
| Reproduction | Sexual, Spawning, Two Sexes | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Superkingdom Kingdom Subkingdom Phylum Class Order Superfamily Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Viridisagania Mancerxa Phytozoa (info) Phylloichthyia (info) Astrapodorsi Scootypufformes Aqualiventroidea Youyuqingwidae Youyuqingwa Youyuqingwa shùqideyaobai | |
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With the spread and diversification of the lurtrees came a new opportunity for the squaphaneer. The Steiner archipelagoes proved a bountiful environment with few predators, allowing for the squaphaneers to experiment with specializing into newer niches. The steiner squaphs has split from their ancestors, becoming fully adapted to arboreal life. They are no longer capable of leaping, instead they use their hind area to shimmy along the branches of the lurtrees. The pseudo-cartilage in their limbs has been refined to the point of providing structures for muscle attachment, allowing for greater muscular strength. Their trunks are also more capable or minute articulation than their ancestors, aiding in their movements and assisting in their feeding.
Their adaptations for arboreal life as adults has resulted in them being poorer swimmers than their ancestors, however their young are still quite capable. While they do compete with their ancestors somewhat, they have niche partitioned, with the squaphs typically staying in the higher canopy, while the squaphaneers still maintain an advantage on the more terrestrial adjacent sections of the flora.
Like their ancestor they are capable of delivering an electrical shock through the spikes on their backs, and have clusters of electrosensitive pits on either side of their head near the base of the trunk which let them detect when another squaph has discharged their electrical defense. This helps to give an early warning should a predator be nearby and out of sight.