From the Encyclopedia of Marvels, Life Forms and Other Phenomena of Zamonia and its Environs by Professor Abdullah Nightingale Mountain Maggot, The. Although its outward appearance renders this hard to believe, the Mountain or Iron Maggot (Vermis montanus) belongs to the same family as the common earthworm, but is much more highly developed. The Mountain Maggot bears a biological resemeblance, on the one hand, to the primitive whipworm (Trichocephalus dispar), especially as regards its digestive organs; and, on the other, to the structurally far more complex tube-dwelling worm, (Hermella complexiensis). At a mature stage of development, Mountain Maggots attain roughly the size of a Cloven-Hoofed Steppe Unicorn, and are thus Zamonia's third largest species of worm, surpassed only by the →Lo