Gremlins

The most widespread and common form of siphonovore. Gremlins are small and mischievous, stowing away on ships and space-faring vessels, hoarding small bits of scrap and causing technology to malfunction. Despite the havoc they can cause, they are not singularly malicious or hostile. On the contrary, they are often playful and harmless on their own. Some have even been tamed and kept as pets, or trained to assist in rescue or scrap diving operations. By far the most intelligent of all known species of siphonovores, their physical forms are infinitely varying, but there is some consistent morphology between them. Their intelligence and behavior is relatively consistent across individual colonies, and they always have at least one eye; that is, one or more bots that serve a function similar to an eye. And they all sport four limbs: two legs for locomotion, and two arms ending in finger-like digits with an opposable thumb. The number of fingers, as well as the relative length of the limbs in proportion to one another vary wildly, but they are almost universally "knuckle-walking" quadripeds. All other aspects of their morphology have been observed to have no consistency from colony to colony. They can range in size from 5 inches to 1 meter tall, from thin to stout; they can appear as one, flush mechanism, similar to a robot, or of loosely-attracted bots and material that shifts and changes shape. Their temperaments and cleverness can vary from openly hostile to openly friendly.