Crabsnake

The Crab Snake is a life form belonging to the fauna category that can only be found in the Jelly Shroom Caves, where it resides in the Snake Shrooms.

As an aggressive creature, it will attack the player on approach and deals about 25-30 health damage.

Appearance
The Crab Snake has a long, serpentine body. It also has two long, translucent fins along the sides of its body, which undulate as it moves.

Though similar to an eel, and with the word "snake" in its name, the Crab Snake is much more similar to a crustacean. This has been proven both by the developers and by the Crab Snake's physical appearance. The top of the shelled body is pink, with horizontal reddish-brown stripes every few feet along its entire length, along with many bright purple spots randomly placed on it. Its underside is pale gray in color.

The Crab Snake 's head sports a pair of small fangs in its mouth, along with a much larger pair of black-tipped claws around it. It has no visible eyes.

Behavior
The Crab Snake waits inside a Jelly Shroom in an upright position until the player gets too close. At that point it will spring out and grab them as a surprise attack. Sometimes after having finished its attacks, the Crab Snake falls back into the mushroom, other times it will leave and swims around the area. Unless agitated again by the player, it will eventually return to the Jelly Shroom and wait again.

It will also leave its mushroom on its own so it can patrol the surrounding area, or seek out another mushroom to reside in. The Crab Snake will attack the Seamoth for minor damage, but will ignore the Cyclops.

Gallery
For a more complete gallery, visit Crab Snake/Gallery.

Trivia

 * The Crab Snake will not re-enter its home mushroom if a player is currently inside of it.