The Rainforest Hopper

Ambuloconidea or Hoppers as they're commonly called are a clade of walking monopaladin snails including the Desert Hopper.

Found across Pangea 2 they are characterized by their unique form of locomotion by hopping on a single powerful leg.

Ambuloconidea evolved from a family of cone snails that first appeared 80 MYH that abandoned their slow moving nature and used their foot to move across the ground like an inchworm. Surviving the 7th mass extinction these cone snails would began to evolve to fill the role of small browser left vacant by the extinction. To do this by 150 MYH their leg elongated allowing the snails to stand on them  and reach higher food sources.

By 190 MYH the leg had been strengthened by rings of muscle enough that the snail could now hop on them to move faster although they do this sparingly and still mainly move by inching along the ground.

This lead to the evolution of the Desert Hopper (A. Tipicus), a highly successful herbivore in the Central Desert by 200 MYH that over the next 15 million years would spread throughout the globe leading to the Rainforest hopper.

About the size of an average adult man standing up, the Rainforest Hopper is the largest of the group weighting in at around 200 pounds. Like all Hoppers they are herbivorous feeding on variety of low-growing plants in the northern forests. However the Rainforest Hopper shows traits that are more derived than its desert counterpart. Its shell has become flatter and less bulky making it easier to hop despite its larger size. Its shell is a striped green and brown pattern to blend into the forest floor to hide from predators it has lost all spikes except for two large ones used to help support and balance itself when standing.

Its foot as also regressed to a more paddle like shape than the pronged foot of the Desert Hopper making it more efficient at hopping capable of reaching speeds of 15 km per hour. However despite its proficiency at hopping the Rainforest Hopper still only stands or hops to feed on higher vegetation or to escape predators. they spend most of their time laying down and inching along the ground.

Like most snails Hoppers have both genders and both partners lay up to 100 eggs. Hoppers do not care for their young. Newborns resemble miniature versions of the adults and only a few in a clutch of a hundred will grow to become adults. Rainforest Hoppers as adults have very few predators, their shells make them unappealing to Arboreal Neck Snares and Vice Mouths. The only animal that hunts them are large Silverswimmers that ambush them at the water's edge and Squibbons whose stone axes are strong enough to hack through their shells.