Maiamai

Maiamais are a species of sentient snail/squid-like creatures in the Zelda series. Maiamais appears to be interdimensional travelers that have so far only been featured in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.

Biology
Maiamais appears to change a lot during the course of their lives. Children Maiamais appears to be way more snail-like than squid-like while the adult Maiamais are way more squid-like than snail-like. Their size increase a lot during their growth as the children could fit in a young Hylian's hands while an adult is roughly the size of some of the huge bosses found in A Link Between Worlds. The only part of their body that actually grow is their soft part and their shell eventually becomes ridiculously small compared to their enormous bodies. As such their shell probably only serves as a mean to protect themselves during the early stages of their lives. They are also sticky and can easily stick to surfaces like wall and climb them. Adult Maiamais also have a gapping mouth they can use to suck in food or even items, which they can then upgrade through a nebulous process. Maiamais are aquatic creatures but seems to be able to live outside of it for pretty much as long as they want. They also seems to be able to have a lot of children as Mother Maiamai has 100 and they all appear to be around the same age, implying that they may have all been born at the same time.

Culture
Unlike most other sentient species in the Zelda series, Maiamais don't seem to have any stable society. They appear to be interdimensional travellers as Mother Maiamai mention multiple times that she spends most of her time exploring other dimensions including Hyrule, Lorule and another one she mentions before departing. They also don't seem to be restricted by the usual barriers existing to prevent interdimensional travel as they seem to be able to freely travel to whichever dimension they want even when other species needs some specific item/technic to do so. Maiamais also seems to be very individualistic as groups only seems to be comprised of a mother and her children, the 72th child even mentions that she stayed behind when her mother and siblings departed to another world because she wanted to grow to become a "mother" in Hyrule. Implying that Mother Maiamai may have also followed the same patern with her own mother.

Members

 * Mother Maiamai
 * The Maiamai Children
 * The 72th child