Flanged Bubblehorn

Flanged bubblehorns are an offshoot of the ylbershpelle bubblehorn, and continue to survive within the Badger Limestone Caverns. While they may still feed upon microbes within the waters of the cavern, they can also seek out decaying matter such as dung to feed upon, and are now the cave's janitory species.

The mucous they secrete seals them well against dessication and they can spend hours, even days if need be, away from a water source before returning, where they will feed for a while in the waters, which serves multiple purposes: it not only allows them to continue feeding, but it also lets them clean off their horns (which may be now covered in dung) as well as rehydrating themselves.

They are named for two flanges that have grown along the sides of their shells. These are filled with water during breeding periods, and as much of their eggs that can be stuck in these flanges are stuck here, increasing the possibility of survival for their young as part of their egg strings are in the water while the other half are with the parents, thereby meaning that for all of their young to be killed off while still eggs for that specific breeding period, the eggs in the water would have to be consumed as well as both parents. They will automatically seek out tight spaces when their young are brooding, where predators are less likely to grab them, where they will then cover the flanges with their horns to prevent water loss as best they can. The young will eventually hatch, and the flanged bubblehorn will instinctually return to the water to release their young once they have hatched.

Elders will still attach themselves to walls very close to bodies of water where they shan't move much at all from then on. They are quite similar to their ancestors in all other ways.