Void Gourd Shneg

==Appearance==
The Void Gourd Shneg Mollusk with a long, thin, slimy body carrying around an emptied Void Gourd as house. The Endemic Life can grow to about as long as a Hornetaur but is usually a bit smaller. While the vegetable on its back has a purple coloration, the Shneg itself is quite inconspicuous with its body being a brown coloration with some lighter spots especially on the upper back and end of the tail. The foot is quite wide and can be extended to the sides. The head of a Void Gourd Shneg is quite broad with small eye stilts, the radula is quite big for its size.
==Habitat and Ecology==
The Void Gourd Shneg is found exclusively in and around the Plagued Meadows though it is a recent subspecies of a species that is commonly known outside that habitat as well. This speciation process is mainly due to the Void Gourd, the main food source of it, hence the name. After the vegetable got grown within the cultivated fields within the Plagued Meadows, the ancestors of this Endemic Life that lived in the Plagued Meadows were drawn to the vegetable for unknown reason. The Mollusk is nocturnal but also roams around when it rains. When it has to retreat it quickly buries a bit of its foot into the earth and expands it to gain hold to the ground. It's very difficult to pull the Endemic Life from the ground in this state.
Due to the Void energy, that the Ambient Species possesses and the Void Gourd Shneg ingests, a faster evolution seems to take place making the Endemic Life more and more focused on the vegetable. Through ingestion the Void element gets absorbed into the body of the Shneg. While this doesn't seem to be have much effect on it physically, the Endemic Life appears to shift its preferance towards the Void Gourds as main food source. The offspring are infused with the Void energy making them crave for it instantly which also let to the parent laying its eggs into the Void Gourd. This can turn into a full-blown addiction with cases of cannibalism taking place just to get the Void energe of another conspecific, but this happens quite rarely.
This Endemic Life reproduces sexually but due to it possessing both sexes it can also produce offspring by itself, though the Mollusk usually falls back onto this method if it hasn't found any conspecifics for a long time. When two of them meet they examine each other's house. The bigger the house the more attractive it is to a partner. After mating is done a single egg gets laid inside a small Void Gourd. When the young hatches it, feeds on the inside of the plant until it is big enough to carry the leftover husk as a shell. Growing bigger the young Void Gourd Shneg will search for bigger Void Gourds to hollow out and carry as a new shell.
==Related Creatures==
None
==Notes==
*Preyed upon by: Bakuragg
*Feeds on: Void Gourds and other similar vegetables, also other parts of the Void Gourd plant.
*Void Gourd Shnegs hide within their shell when approached too quickly. Only slow movements make it possible to surprise it and capture it.
**While they cannot be caught when within their shell, the Void Gourd on the back can be broken by kicking it or attacking it, though the Shneg will instantly burrow into the ground and disappear before there being a chance to capture it.
==Obtainable Rewards and Materials==
*Rewards for capture: 200 Research Points
*Materials left behind: Void Slime
==Trivia==
*The name Shneg is based on the German word "Schnegel" which is used for certain slug species like Limax maximus or "Tigerschnegel".