The wildly divergent adaptive radiation of established body plans in isolated environments is a long-observed fact. This phenomenon has visited the Blumbomeniformes at least once with the fascinating Giant Armless Blumbomen of the remote island of Mapag. While most members of their group are primarily marine, the furthest these Blumbomen venture into water is to certain swamps and secluded beaches to drink and sleep. They are completely terrestrial and feed on a mixture of terrestrial fruits, sprog, small animals and beached carrion. Their great size, combined with their horny head-scutes and the ability to vomit stomach acid under stress, protects them from Mapagian predators such as Brute Turtles. (Phobochelys molestor) While neither the Moai are efficient browsers, or the Brute Turtles efficient predators, the absence of any other large animal in the isolated ecosystem of Mapag ensures their continued survival.
The genus name of these creatures refers to the gigantic Moai statues of Earth, and was the subject of intensive debate on whether it was right to propagate the myth of Earth on Snaiad, where no immediate return back to home is possible. A captive colony of these adorable creatures has been established on the island of Hania on the Neomediterranean. This picture shows a female Moai, with a juvenile sitting safely in its bulbous, nose like genital sac.