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 Mushrooms.

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

It will die after taking 2-3 hits from the Seamoth Perimeter Defense System.

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.

The top of the its body is pink, with horizontal reddish-brown stripes every few feet along its entire length, along with many bright purple dorsal spots. 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. While being attacked by the Crab Snake the player is trapped in the same way they would be while being attacked by the Reaper Leviathan. 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.

Crab Snakes can be observed peeking out of Jelly Shrooms if the player approaches one in the Seamoth. They will not attack, however, and instead will let out hissing noises before going back into their Jelly Shroom.

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.
 * The Crab Snake  will attempt to reach its spawn point to "hide in" if spawned, even without a Snake Mushroom.