Striped Sucker Foi

Splitting from its ancestor, the striped sucker foi has lost its ability to parasitize hosts and has instead settled on becoming a detrivore. Lacking the "wings" common amongst its cousins, it slides along the ground on its "stomach" instead of gliding over it. They produce large amounts of young and tend to be found in large masses along the seafloor. Starting out as microscopic larvae with manta ray-like fins, they swim about feeding on particles of food floating on the water for about a week before eventually settling on the seafloor and losing their wings. As they mature into adults, they take on a grayish coloration that makes them resemble pebbles on the sandy floor. Feeding on detritus and other organic material, they perform this for nearly three months. After this, however, they enter their breeding stage and become a bright yellow color. While those in Anguan Temperate Coast become highly visible to predators, others are perfectly fine on the golden sands of their homes. After the males mate with the females over a period of three days, they die of exhaustion. The females, meanwhile, will continue to feed as they slowly begin to expand as dozens of larvae form within it. Finally, the female bursts and releases its young into the world, completing its role in life.