Northern Dwarf Siren

Northern Dwarf Siren
ドワーフサイレン
Character Data
AKA		Dwarf Siren
Romaji		Dowāfusairen
Debut		Kemono Friends (2015 Game)
Animal Data
Scientific Name		Pseudobranchus striatus
Distribution		Southeastern United States
Diet		Omnivore
Avg. Lifespan		?
Read More		Northern dwarf siren
Conservation

Northern Dwarf Siren

Nexon Game

The Northern Dwarf Siren is a type of amphibian Friend that appeared in the original Kemono Friends mobile game.

Appearance

Northern Dwarf Siren has wine-red eyes and waist-length green hair that fades to brown towards the ends. There are yellow stripes on her bangs and the sides, and brown spots on the top of her head. She has two orange gills coming out of the hair on each side of her head. She has a green slender finned tail with yellow stripes and brown spots, similar to the tail pattern seen from her species. She is in a lime swimsuit with a little bow on the bottom of her swimsuit. She wears a see-through dress with a dark frilly strip at the skirt. She also has separate see-through sleeves with dark frills. She has an orange scrunchie on her left wrist, and brown sandals.

Series Appearances

Appearances In Kemono Friends Media

Media		Role
2015	Nexon Game	↪ Minor character, playable character

In Real Life

Northern Dwarf Siren.

Northern Dwarf Siren is the smallest member among the family Sirenidae, at only 4.0–9.9 inch (10–25 cm). Like other sirens, it is aquatic, breathes through gills the entire life and lacks hind legs. It has slender, eel-like body with light stripes on its side compared to the brown or light-grey dorsal part. The siren has only one gill slit, a finned tail, three toes on each of the front feet.

The species dwells at pond bottoms and among roots of floating plants. It can be found in shallow ditches, cypress swamps, and weed-choked ponds on the wetlands of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The siren feeds on small invertebrates.

Northern Dwarf Sirens gather in large numbers at ponds in Spring to breed. They fertilise externally and each of them can lay up to 61 eggs in a breeding season. Each egg is laid singly on roots of aquatic plants. It takes a month for larvae to hatch and 4 years for them to reach sexual maturity.

Population of Northern Dwarf Siren is considered stable and listed as Least Concerned in IUCN Red List.

Trivia

• Northern Dwarf Siren can make yelping noises when threatened.
• It survives droughts by burrowing itself in mud beneath the pond bottom.
• It is one of the two dwarf siren species known. The other one is Southern dwarf siren which lives exclusively in Florida.

References

Range map of Northern Dwarf Siren (Pseudobranchus striatus) published by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - Gap Analysis Project (GAP), 2018 https://doi.org/10.5066/F7K35SSN.https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/59f5e278e4b063d5d307dec5