Common Floor-Crawler Helix

Common Floor-Crawler Helix
Creator	D̜͙̟͉ìn̨̹o̬̗C̼̮̣͡óaͅt͜
Information
Status	Extant
Common Name(s)	Common Floor-Crawler Helix
Zones	5
Roles	Base-consumer
Classification
Genus	Helix
Species	Helix solureperous
Evolution
Date	October 3rd, 2019
Ancestor	Helix pererrous
Descendants	Hairy Floor-Crawler Taxono-Crawler Helix

This descendant of Helix pererrous started out onto a new niche which did not have much competition: grabbing and feeding on polyph seeds off of the ocean floor rather than drifting in the currents and only hoping that they would catch seeds. It did so at first by consuming the seeds of Megaplortatus flotatortensis that failed to float and instead sunk to the ocean floor, and then it also began consuming the seeds of Racomitrium megafolium when a population spread there from the northernmost areas of Zone 3, kickstarting this new successful species with the help of abundant food. The Common Floor-Crawler Helix (Helix solureperous) managed to avoid competition from their counterparts consuming these seeds on the ocean floor, and it eventually became a separate population.

Common Floor-Crawler Helixes contain four limbs on their overall radial-symmetric bodies, which they use to help scoot their bodies around slowly by lifting one up after another and to detect and grab seeds for consumption. Each of their "arms" extends up to five centimeters (5 cm) in length away from the main body, and the shell is another five centimeters (5 cm) in diameter. The arms retain the stickiness of those of their ancestors, but this is not much of a problem as the floors of Zone 5 are fairly rocky and sediment does not get in the way overly often. The body of this helid is a purple in color due to the pigmentation that they use, and as it helps to camouflage them from any potential predators such as Rostrocerovenator parvus that are swimming above.

Common Floor-Crawler Helixes typically achieve maturity within four weeks (4 wks) of age, and can reproduce either sexually or asexually as they are hermaphrodites. Eggs are laid in clutches from twelve to twenty-four (12-24) and are held in the shell, usually taking around one week (1 wk) for the helids to form well enough to emerge out of their eggs. Afterwards, they will live independently on their own with no apparent social structure, like how most helids do.