Sand Shovel-Nosed Wormfish

Sand Shovel-Nosed Wormfish
Creator	Spinoyonyx
Information
Status	Extant
Common Name(s)	Sand Shovel-Nosed Wormfish
Zones	E
Roles	Base-Consumer
Classification
Genus	Sandoslontus
Species	Sandoslontus sandaworma
Evolution
Date	January 15th, 2020
Ancestor	Bronantus saharus
Descendants	No results

Evolved from U. saharus, due to the high predation from their 5 predators(A.gymnocephalus, A. kinthus, D. gatoeidius, T. katharagnathus, and U. scorpio) To avoid these predators they started to live underground developing a shovel-like nose and longer claws for digging. Their feeding habits changed to feeding mostly on the roots of polyphs. They developed a larger egg bearing clutch so that there is a better chance for their young to survive and breed more often so they can reproduce more often.

Found in zone E, they get up to 23cm long. They feed on A. chloodus
A. megaradix, A. paralius, A. pephko, D. cendra, D. desertus, D. flitzanius, E. phylloakidus, H. noncortexus, N. ardus, P. akakius, P. chirapalamus, P. phyllosymplegmus, and P. thamnos. They feed mostly on the roots of their polyphs however they will sometimes rise up from the ground to feed on the leaves or spines of their polyphs. They live mostly underground usually 10-20cm below the surface so that they can go to the surface to breathe every 5 minutes.They mostly spend its time laying under a thorny polyph with its nose exposed resting but when they are hungry they would start search and constantly move until they had enough.

When sleeping they sleep with their nose poke out of the sand under a thorny bush polyph species. They sport a yellow sandy coloration with a dark orange stripe across the back.

When breeding, pairs that encounter each other mate which then the female lay their eggs(up to 10-40 eggs but only 10-25 survive)underground.The mother would protect and care for the eggs until they hatch after a month so they will not be exposed on the surface(when the wing blow away the sand exposing the eggs).They mate 3 times a year in order to keep their population in check from the extra amount of predators. Once the eggs hatch the hatchlings are at the size of 5cm and are fully independent and would start to find food while their mother also leaves the egg clutch to feed. Their expected lifespan is 2 years.