Beach Slider

The beach slider is an amphibious animal that split from the sea floater. Unlike the sea floater, who visits the beach occasionally for food, the beach slider is truly adapted for life on the beach. The four ambulatory tentacles lay flat on the ground. The tentacular "feet" move the beach slider foreward. The eyes become more of a "pinhole", which can let it detect limited images. The manipulative tentacles become chemoreceptive, which allows the beach slider to smell. It's diet consists of stickyballs, smaller animals, dead bodies, and anything the sea spits out. The poison glands move into the mouth. When killing prey, the toxin is injected into it. The hydrogen sac is now simply a vocal organ. Air passes through the hole on the forehead. Vocal cords develop to vibrate the sound. Then it's amplified from the sac. They have became social. They can communicate by changing colors. Beach sliders become slightly intellegent, which helps them find food and care for their young.

The hermaphroditic gender of the beach slider develops a phallus-like organ, called the phallodeum, that places the eggs or sperm in the carrier gender's pouch. The pouch holds the eggs. The young hatch inside the pouch, but are kept inside until they can survive outside. The baby beach sliders are weak and need much attention. They are only a few inches long. The parents defend the babies aggressively if something tries to eat them (like a leatherback scuttlecrab).