Barlowe Specter
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The Barlowe specter has split from its ancestor. With the loss of the caves they used to shelter in the spectresnatchs adapted by sheltering in the nests and burrows of other fauna, especially tams such as the Tamchuck. While they first started living in tamchuck burrows they have expanded their range of hosts to include the burrowing tamjack and the above ground nests of shrogres and tamhooks. They will even sometimes enter the floating nests of marine tamows. This is fairly rare however as they require a source of fresh water and a territory to hunt in, meaning that while they can survive short voyages and have spread to many of the islands of time subtropical rainforest archipelago, they cannot survive long periods at sea. Barlowe specters' relationship with their hosts is primarily commensalistic, the specters do not compete with them for food or hunt them for food. Barlowe specters may even be mutualistic, eating fauna that would otherwise steal from their host's food stores.
Like its ancestor the Barlowe specter is nocturnal and primarily relies on it senses of hearing and smell to hunt and navigate. They are able to bend their nostril tails under their body to better small ahead of themselves. The olfactory membrane around the rim of the nostril now has multiple small folds, increasing its surface area and improving their sense of smell. Their ancestor's simple eyespot structures are now noticeably concave and packed with a higher density of photoreceptors, allowing them to act as a pair of pigment cup eyes. These eyes are able to squeeze shut when they are underground or navigating tight spaces and they produce thin watery "tears" which flush out dirt and irritants. Their sight is quite poor, limited to blurry monochrome and the detection of movement. As a result, they are rather skittish, fleeing from most larger fauna and often even hiding from their hosts.
Barlowe specters are limited to warm regions, their ancestor's long subterranean existence has left them with a low resting body temperature and a slow metabolisum, though theirs is slightly higher than the spectersnatch's is. Unlike the spectersnatch they pigmented skin which protects them should they be accidentally exposed to sunlight. This also reduces the amount of light they reflect in the dark, as they no longer live in pitch blackness and being extremely pale would make them more visible in the night.