Hooded Bronisław

Hooded Bronisław
Creator	🌴Thecuriousone06🌺
Information
Status	Extant
Common Name(s)	Hooded Bronisław
Zones	C, C1
Roles	Base-Consumer
Classification
Genus	Bronislawia
Species	Bronislawia cucullio
Evolution
Date	July 29th, 2020
Ancestor	Hooktail Bronisław
Descendants	No results

• Size: 8-11 cm (length)

• Reproduction: Males will stand in front of each other a start doing a flexing-like movement and swinging their tails to intimidate each other. They lay their eggs in their burrows, where they are safe from most predators. The eggs take ~10 days to hatch. The parent leaves a berry or two in the burrow on day 9 for the offspring to feed once they are born so they have enough energy to leave the burrow and fend for themselves. The offsping themselves are ~1 cm long when born.

• Food/sustenance: Berries of C. amfivios.
  
• Predators: A. lutosquama and X. quadrambiguus.

• Description:
  

Descended from B. uncuscauda, B. cucullio has specialized in consuming the berries of the newly evolved C. amfivios. This change is due to the berries being more nutritious than the seeds of other polyphs and to avoid competing with its ancestor B. uncuscauda. Due to the place C. amfivios grows the Hooded Bronisław spends more time on land. They dig burrows in the mud filled with water where C. amfivios grows to deal with the changing tide and hide from predators. Their new colouration, although easy to spot when swimming, allows them to hide when eating the berries. Their red coloured heads mimic the berry’s colour while consuming it, the yellow hood is both used to mimic the yellow part of the polyph and to store fat, and the green body mimics the stem. They wrap their tail and anchor their hook at the base of the polyph while eating. Since moving around is a dangerous activity due to their obvious colours, the Hooded Bronisław will set a territory around their burrow with food to reduce time exposed causing them to be uniformly distributed along the coasts.