Hydrogen Jellysquid

The Hydrogen Jellysquid evolved to escape the Feathered Beakworms. The air balloons of it's ancestor became larger and filled with hydrogen which lifts the body of the Jellysquid right out of the water leaving only it's four, long tentacles dangling into the waters below. It has developed a hard, beak-like ridge around it's mouth which makes it more efficient at eating Beakworms. It also has two small, vestigial tentacles below it's mouth which it uses to help it direct food into it's mouth. Because it can no-longer use it's gills to respire it has developed a primitive lung from the major jet that remained from the Filtersquid. it has also got two smaller jets on either side of its mouth that it uses to squirt a paralysis inducing toxin at predators should it feel threatened. Unfortunately, it has no eyes so it doesn't always shoot the toxin in the right direction.

Hydrogen Jellysquid reproduce in a unique way. The species has two genders, one is a hermaphrodite and the other acts ar a kind of living womb. When two of the "breeders" meet each other they will fertilise each others eggs. They will then drift around until the come into contact with a "Carrier". They will pass on the fertilised eggs into a pouch on the underside of the "Carrier" where they will complete their development. Each brood consists of four to seven large, hard-shelled eggs which when laid will float on the surface of the water for a few hours before they hatch.