Armored Cannon Larva

Alph

Structural flaw: weak hide
Weight: 7

It's able to handle heavy rocks, so it's strong, and it has expert aim, so it's clever. If it was better armored, it would be unstoppable.

Brittany

This thing eats rocks the way I eat fruit: its stomach is always full and it likes to spit out the seeds.

Charlie

It spews rocks as well as any heavy artillery I've ever seen. Since we didn't bring any heavy artillery with us, I'd love to use this thing as a substitute. The trick will be figuring out how to lure our enemies into its line of fire.

Louie

Carefully remove every grain of sand, peel back the exoskeleton, and slurp heartily! Or deep-fry it, too!

Olimar

Armored Cannon Larva
Granitus chukkulinae
Lithopod family

This specimen is a lithopod larva. This expedition was unable to confirm the existence of any mature lithopods, leading to concerns that the species was extinct on this planet, but the discovery of the creature in larval form eased such concerns. Lithopods, like flint beetles, use internal metabacteria to aid chemical digestion. These metabacteria can only survive in certain environments, such as within the body of certain insects, so lithopod larvae do not contain any metabacteria immediately after hatching. Larvae feed on partially digested ore regurgitated by mature lithopods, ensuring the larvae obtain metabacteria they would not normally have acquired.