Squeept

A Squeept was a hyperthermophilic arthropoid that was indigenous to certain areas of Zebes. They often could be found hiding within lava, jumping out using their mandible-like legs before diving back under. It is unknown why they did this, although one could assume that, like many other Zebesian life, they were territorial.

As with all other species native to Zebes, it became extinct in the wild when Samus Aran finally destroyed the evil Mother Brain. While they were seen aboard the Biologic Space Laboratory Research Station as infected or versions mimicked by the X Parasite which had taken over, the BSL was destroyed in a similar manner to Zebes.