Canoe Krugg
| Canoe Krugg | ||
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| (Pleophtheiris linter) | ||
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| Information | ||
| Creator | Coolsteph Other | |
| Week/Generation | 25/157 | |
| Habitat | Gec Salt Swamp | |
| Size | 4 cm Long | |
| Primary Mobility | Unknown | |
| Support | Unknown | |
| Diet | Herbivore (Redmosses, Orangemosses, Testudiatoms, Sailcells, Floatfilms) | |
| Respiration | Active (Microlungs) | |
| Thermoregulation | Ectotherm | |
| Reproduction | Sexual, Many Snail-like Eggs on Male's Back | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Kingdom Subkingdom Phylum Clade Superclass Class Superorder Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Binucleozoa Symbiovermes (info) Thoracocephalia Coluripoda Ossicancer Entomocarcinia (info) Xenocimecomorpha Vermimorphoblattiformes Vermimorphoblattidae Pleophtheiris Pleophtheiris linter | |
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Canoe kruggs's small size, short, weak mandibles, and narrow mouths limit them to small (<4 mm) aquatic flora. This mainly consists of redmosses and testudiatoms, though, as a filter-feeder, it ingests incidental amounts of other tiny organisms as well. Its selective diet, as well as its commonness in its habitat, has an ecosystem-wide effect: while the water flora it eats has a population increase in autumn, it doesn't outright experience "blooms" in Gec Salt Swamp. This means the water isn't tinted red, orange, or purple during autumn, the soil isn't tinted purple by testudiatoms, and floatfilms don't cover the water's surface. Consequently, marbleflora and snotflora, which are always too big for the canoe krugg to eat, dominate the water ecosystem.
Canoe krugg eggs hatch during autumn to take advantage of increased food levels. They become independent from their parents after hatching, leading to high population density at the water's surface. Canoe kruggs' egg output is so high that the population would quickly starve if all the individuals survived to reproduce. The population is maintained at sustainable levels by wadesnappers, which find canoe kruggs easy pickings. On occasions of particular canoe krugg density, such as the early days of autumn, wadesnappers plunge their snouts into the water every half-second.
The bristles on canoe kruggs' legs function as paddles, helping it swim. The legs are so adapted for swimming that they can't support the canoe krugg's weight on land anymore. Female canoe kruggs have flexible cloaca segments, which they use to paste fertilized eggs onto the backs of their mates. The offspring skip the thornworm-like larval stage and instead hatch as miniature versions of the adults. The purple spots on the canoe krugg's back camouflage it among marbleflora.