Scraperbeak Gilltail

Scraperbeak Gilltail
(Glarignatharion scabo)
Information
Creator	Bufforpington Other
Week/Generation	26/161
Habitat	Maineiac Temperate River, Maineiac Salt Marsh
Size	4 cm Long
Primary Mobility	Unknown
Support	Unknown
Diet	Filter-Feeder, Herbivore (Orangemat)
Respiration	Unknown
Thermoregulation	Unknown
Reproduction	Sexual, Two Sexes, Eggs into Mud
Taxonomy
Domain Kingdom Subkingdom Phylum Subphylum Clade Clade Class Order Family Genus Species	Eukaryota Binucleozoa Symbiovermes (info) Pterigiophora (info) Eupterigiophora Argyroscolecia Pancaudabranchia Caudabranchia (info) Neobranchiouriformes Maineipomidae Glarignatharion Glarignatharion scabo

Ancestor:	Descendants:
Dwarf Maineiac Gilltail

The scraperbeak gilltail split from its ancestor and has specialized in eating the orangemat. They use their elongated lower beaks to scrape pieces of the mat off of the riverbed. Once the pieces of mat are dislodged, they will eat the pieces. If they can't find any orangemats, they will resort to filter-feeding. They live in small shoals, protecting them through safety in numbers. One shoal can easily tear up an orangemat. However, they often times will miss some bits of the mat and those bits will ultimately settle down to create new mats. Scraperbeak gilltails will instinctively avoid eating small mats. Like their ancestor, males will fight over females. The males will use their elongated lower beaks as lances and joust each other.