Slender Nakeworm

Splitting from its ancestor, the slender nakeworm has left the caverns that its ancestors inhabit and taken to desert life. It has undergone a form of parallel evolution, resembling the burrowing lizardworm in structure. Burrowing under the sand, it waits for vibrations to indicate a potential meal aboveground, usually consisting of the iron-feeding fauna that it has adapted to eating due to their plentifulness. At night they come out of the ground and slither about, feeding on flora and fauna that come out during the much cooler nights as apposed to the blistering hot days. They mate at this time should they find another of their species, and both will gestate their young within themselves for 6-7 weeks after which they will then give birth to to small, chubby versions of themselves. They have evolved a unique adaption. They are capable of generating small yet controlled electric shocks from a series of compacted muscles located within the sides of their lower abdomen and tail, and use this to shock potential predators that may grab them their. The shock, while useful against smaller predators, is relatively useless against larger ones.