I finally made a little sheet for scud body mods and decoration! The sheets for the rest of the Runaway to the Stars aliens are here.
Anything scuds decorate themselves with is either removable, or it just comes off when they molt out of their current carapace. Adults only molt every 2-3 earth years, so tattoos and engravings stick around pretty long but not forever. The “limpets” I drew here are one of many intertidal critters scuds will put on themselves as decoration, but are by far the easiest to care for. Off-duty “limpets” are kept in a small terrarium and fed table scraps. Scuds can rent them from living decoration shops instead, if they don’t want to care for their own dec-snails. Adult scuds also have some issues with unwanted decoration, ie, small marine “invertebrates” and “plants” rooting on their body in between molts. Scraping off sessile hitchhikers is an important part of scud hygiene.
Literally can’t even x 1000
Tag: Scuds
“Hunchback Amphipod” (Iphemedia gibba)
…a strikingly marked blue and yellow species of Gammarid amphipod that is known to occur along the coast of South Africa, ranging from the Cape Peninsula to Port Elizabeth. Hunchback amphipods are often encountered from the subtidal zone down to at least 25 meters (82 feet), where it often seen near sessile invertebrates like sponges or corals.
Classification
Animalia-Arthropoda-Crustacea-Malacostraca-Amphipoda-Gammaridea-Iphimediidae-Iphimedia-I. gibba
Image: seascapeza
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