I reviewed the previous posts and finally decided what the characteristics of my organism is like. The following is a brief idea it. This organism will then be edited and refined again.
Name of organism: Lumbripus placus
Characteristics:
The Lumbripus placus is a ball shaped organism with a pair of feet and a pair of paws which have claws to help it dig in the soil and hide from predators. The skin, an insulator of heat, is able to retain a great amount of heat and make food for itself with this heat energy, which is abundant in its habitat. The Lumbripus Placus is also able to gain nutrients, for example iron oxide, through a a partially-permeable proboscis.
The Lumbripus placus reproduces through budding. The young buds firstly grow out as a part of the parent. It slowly develops a proboscis (this takes around 1 day) and sucks nutrients from the parent using that tube. Over a period of 5 days, the young will develop other body parts. There will be around 30 of such buds on a single parent. During this time, due to the fast absorption of nutrients by the young, the Lumbripus placus adult will be greatly weakened soon after the young break off from the parent, the parent will die.
The outer-covering of the Lumbripus placus is bare skin. The skin is moist throughout its body and slimy only at its feet, due to secretion of a slime that is caused by its eating iron oxide for nutrients. The slime will be able to allow sand to be stuck on the feet of the organism, creating enough friction for the Lumbripus placus to be able to move quickly through the slippery conditions in its habitat.
