Rootsucker

“	These were utterly strange creatures: three-legged - a truncated tail forming the rear one of the three - and almost lacking in anything that could be called a body at the juncture of these three legs, merely having an eyeless oval head from which extended a long curved snout terminating in a ring of black tentacles. The creatures were harmless, subsisting as they did on sap tapped from the roots of the plasmoderms.	„
—Line of Polity, Prologue