The land eel is legless and undulates to move across the ground. This organism has two sets of eyes that help give it a wide view of its environment. The hide of the creature is drab in appearance but it helps the eel stay hidden in the murky underbrush of the forest.
The land eel that slinks about the base of the sunstalk, moving in and out of the tunnels and holes that characterize the stalk’s base. It uses the spines along the lateral edges of its body to grip and pull itself through the forest floor.
Land eels are carnivorous, hunting small fauna that inhabit the floor of the sunstalk forest including razorwing nymphs, stalkleapers on the forest floor, and juvenil mossbacks.
Land eels reproduce sexually. Groups of males and females reproduce in large masses intertwining along the bases of the sunstalk stumps and swap genetic information with many partners. The females will carry the fertilized eggs in their bodies until they are ready to deposit into the tunnels of the sunstalk. Days later, hundreds of baby land eels emerge and swarm the forest floor.
Despite being legless, all six limb buds are still present on the interior of the land eels body. They are vestigial, but demonstrate its relationship to the other six-legged organisms on Sarcannus.