Ocabulabamn

The ocabulabamn split from its ancestor and adapted to the environment found in the temperate beaches of East Barlowe. Its body is even more flat and the colors resemble the rusty red sand found around the beach. Having about half size of its ancestor, the ocabulabamn does a good disguise work, being easily confused as a small pebble in the sand. The species evolved a very sturdy mouth in order to improve its feeding habit; being very wide, it has about the same size of the main body when totally opened. The main oral piece is surrounded by numerous lips that get long and short in order to capture food and bring it to the center. While eating, the movements produced by the mouth also will make the creature move slowly; such adaptation led to the atrophy of the four first pairs of legs, which became almost useless. While most of the legs shriveled, the shoveling back legs are still long, being used to dig burrows in order to lay the mucus sac of eggs in chambers protected from predators or any environmental danger. When digging, the parts of the mouth placed under the shell will sweep the sand to the sides, while the wedge shape of the shell helps it to burrow better. When resting into the burrow, the mouth can be almost entirely hidden into the body, while the sensitive horns remain exposed to the environment. The horns grew longer and resemble a cluster solar satelies, which also improve its camouflage. The five chambers located in the top of the shell are filled with air and help it to breathe underwater for a short time and float when swept by the waves, being then carried back to the beach. Tiny and very numerous, the ocabulabamns are often found covering entire corpses placed along the beach.