Flamboyant Fan Bloister

The flamboyant fan bloister split from its ancestor and has taken up the Fermi Temperate regions for residence. In its evolution, the flamboyant fan bloister's four legs have become stronger, which allows it to move around better than is ancestor or even its distant ancestor, the bloister. The flamboyant fan bloister's shell has also become stronger, which not only helps retain water better, but also allows for some amount of defense against predators. The flamboyant fan bloister has also evolved to sexually reproduce, which allows for stronger individuals than those produced by the asexually reproducing fan bloisters. The flamboyant fan bloister is named for its extra-large fan-hand that is highly vibrant with colors. It gains these pigments from the various plankton it feeds on. The colorful fan-hand is used to persuade other flamboyant fan bloisters to mate with it, in that the larger and more vibrant the colorful fan-hand is, the more fit the flamboyant fan bloister is. The arm with the colorful fan-hand has even evolved an extra segment for extra dexterity and more free movement. The male flamboyant fan bloisters have two regular feeding fan-hands throughout the majority of the year, but when it is the mating season, they shed and one of their feeding arms becomes the colorful fan-hand used to attract mates. While these colorful fan-hands attract mates, it also makes it harder for it to feed and can attract some predators to feed on them. Once mating season has concluded, the survivors shed their colorful fan-hands and regain their original feeding fan-hands. The flamboyant fan bloister uses its tiny mouth to pick the food off its fan-hands. Other than these changes, it is quite similar to its ancestor.