Fleurm

Fleurms are a non-sapient species of small worm-like mammalianoids which thrive in the urban areas of planet Moth, where they opportunistically feed on garbage and other food sources.

Biology
Despite their worm-like appearance, Fleurms are actually limbless mammalianoids, only about an inch in diameter, but as long as a Human forearm. They're covered in thick silvery fur and have small mouths filled with teeth. Their eyesight is poor.

While they normally feed on garbage, they can be numerous and ravenous enough to devour helpless Humans, such as sleeping drunkards, leaving only clean skeletons behind.

Appearances

 * For Love of Mother-Not, by Alan Dean Foster (1983)