Supraorganones?

I propose something like “organone” as the term, as organelle is modified with a diminutive -elle, -one is an augmentative.

Approved.

So just for my understanding, they asexually reproduce with internal eggs that they then give birth to live young?

That does pose an interest question. Biology to my knowledge does really have a term individual organisms actioning as an organ within a superorganism. The best I can think to do at the moment is to create an in-house term for us to use until we get a proper term.

Can you elaborate a little on what asexual reproduction actually looks like?

So these are Sagan 4’s answer to Tardigrades?

Does this overlap with Ramul?

Hey everyone, due to a clerical error, Ramul Temperate Beach has been left off the Week 26 Ecosystem page. After deliberating, it has been decided that this will be combining two beaches from Week 25. As such, the following species have been resurrected:
Boomsticks
Boomcracker
Hopketter
Fisticoat
Vermair
Shockscooter
Eeyore Stalks
Smoothcoat

Thank you

These are beginning to remind me of Hysteria from Extraterrestrial

I don’t think the Mainland Fuzzpalm can outcompete the Fuzzpalm, as it’s more adapted to inland soil environments. It can survive on the beach fine, but it’s not a suited for it.

Gec Saurohound (Slaesocaccia gec)

Creator: MNIDJM
Ancestor: Saurohound (Slaesosaurus falkor)
Habitat: Gec Salt Swamp, Gec Tropical Riparian, Gec Tropical River
Size: 3.5 m long
Diet: Carnivore (Gec Onamor, Gec Gilltail, Wadesnapper, Verdiundi, Knobshell, Thorny Toadtuga, Spineless Toadtuga, River Hikahoe, Spinemander, Muckwater Fraboo, Horned Landlubber, Regal Sphinx, Twinkiiro Gilltail)
Reproduction: Sexual, Live Birth, Two Genders

The migration into the waterways of Gec was a gradual one, but over time the [[saurohound]] population around the Chum coastlines began to split, as some found the swamp waters around Gec a safe place to rear young. Decreased competition and abundant food and shelter allowed them to dominate the waters, and soon they became the apex predators of the region.

Significantly smaller than their coastal relatives, they have shrunk in response to the thick vegetation and limited space available in the riverway. Adults' snouts and jaws have become comparably stunted when examined next to their coastal ancestors, but the deeper set jaw has become significantly more muscular, aiding in their ambush predatory livesyles. A saurohound will wait motionless while hunting, before exploding forward and biting down with a force of 1,200 psi. They have been documented waiting by the river's edge for prey to wander towards the waters edge, snapping their jaw around their catch, and dragging it into the water to drown it.

Adults reach reproductive maturity in five years, and have a lifespan averaging eighteen to twenty years. Individuals have been found capable of living as old as 26, though these appear to require optimal conditions.

As with their ancestors, there appears to be no set mating season exactly, however mating does appear to become more frequent in the late summer and late winter months. This staggered mating appears to be a mechanism to ensure less direct competition with sired pups, allowing them to maximize available food. Gestation is over a period of seven to eight months, with the range affected by available food. Mothers that have a harder time acquiring food during pregnancy appear to gestate longer as a stress response. Adult females will typically mate ever eighteen months, and are capable of breeding their entire lives.

Pups are about 50 cm long at birth. At this point, they hunt frabukis, larvabacks, scuttlers, krillpedes and gilltail young. Their diet changes to progressively bigger prey as they grow. Their eyes aren't particularly useful until the are about 2 months of age (an evolutionary holdover from their ancestors) so it relies on its sensory tentacles. Once they reach a large enough size at about 6 months of age, they will become young adults and strike out on their own.

Nice. Approved.

Please post your submissions in this child forum and not in this thread. If your organism is approved, one of us will add it to this thread.

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Post 80 per generation

Southern Bubblgea (Aeropod australis)

Creator: MNIDJM
Ancestor: Bubble Droopgea
Habitat: South Jujubee Polar Ocean (Sunlight Zone), South LadyM Polar Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Nemo Polar Shallows, Krakow Polar Shallows, Colddigger Polar Coast, Fermi Polar Coast
Size: 10 cm Wide, 30 cm Long
Diet: Photosynthesis
Reproduction: Asexual Budding

The southern bubblgea replaced their ancestors as the last remaining populations of bubble droopgea adapted to the polar south of Sagan 4. They are hardy and slow growing, taking 5 years to reach maturity. They live their younger stage anchored to the seabed, absorbing nutrients and building up stores. Once they reach sufficient size, they detach from the seabed in early spring and begin free-floating. While they are able to continue absorbing nutrients through their root stalks, they are terribly inefficient at this, and can only sustain themselves for another few months. They spend the summer months generating internalized buds within their leaf-like protrusions on the bubble. Once the winter approaches and sunlight decreases to negligible levels, the adult bubblgea dies, sinking to the seabed. If they have drifted to a sufficient location, the internal buds will rupture from their corpses and use its nutrients to feed the next generation.

Pilokepderi (Tubernullus runrundus)

Creator: MNIDJM
Ancestor: Pilonomroot
Habitat: Maineiac Chaparral, Maineiac Polar Scrub, Maineiac Rocky, Maineiac Volcanic, Maineiac High Grassland
Size: 75 cm Wide
Diet: Photosynthesis, Insectivore (Poison Pedesorm, Sprinting Pedesorm, Armored Pedesorm, Harvester Pedesorm, Miner Pedesorm, Sapworms, Dartirs)
Reproduction: Sexual: Flowers and Airborne Seeds

The Pilokepderi arose from the inland proliferation of their ancestors. Growing alongside their relatives such as the Pilunoroot, they use their insectivorous capacity to give them an edge in nutrient acquisition. They live functionality the same as their ancestors, allowing their seeds to be varied on the wind. They have developed frond-like protrusions along their basal root-trunks that aids them in trapping prey organisms as they wander by. These fronds secrete a modified phloem sap that contain various carbohydrates, proteins and waste products that when mixed appear to generate a thick, viscous fluid that is capable of entangling prey creature. The prey that are captured, typically a member of one of the ground based pedesorm species, slowly die of starvation, and their nutrients provide for the flora. Study of the organisms shows the fronds appear to be derived from the same basal peddle like fronds that grow on the flowering bodies, which act doubly as to increase surface area to allow for improved photosynthesing capacity. This functionality however appear to be purely secondary, yet it remains undetermined wether the fronds developed for their role in capturing prey or if the increased photosynthetic capabilites evolved first.

Camouflage Foi (Exotedebikwali camo)

Creator: MNIDJM
Ancestor: River Foi
Habitat: Wright Salt Swamp, Pipcard Salt Swamp, Terra Salt Swamp, Kenotai Salt Swamp, BigL Tropical Coast
Size: 10 mm long
Diet: Planktovore, Detritivore
Reproduction: Fragmentation

The camouflage foi diverged from their freshwater ancestors about 20,000 years after their ancestors first re-emerged from the subterranean waterways, adapting first to the brackish water of Wright, and then eventually the greater tropical coasts beyond. They are functionally the same as their distant marine ancestors, living simple lives on the ocean floor vacuuming up food that they pass over. They have become accustomed to the salinity, and function within a range between 2.1 to 3.7 %. Ion channels along the cell membranes of these creatures constantly maintain equilibrium, but this appears to require an enormous energy expenditure, which results in rather sluggish behavior compared to their freshwater and subterranean relatives. They prefer environments with slower currents and tidal forces, slithering along the seabed at a top speed of 0.25 kph.

They are mostly transparent, which provides some protection, but due to its lack of otherwise natural defenses and limited mobility it appears the best manageable. In low light conditions they are nearly imperceptible to organisms with a typical color vision range, and only limited detection appears when these organisms are moving. Their eyes have seen partial functionality return, allowing them to detect changing light levels above them. This allows them to seek out shaded or otherwise dim light areas, though their vision does not appear complex enough to distinguish between dim light area and dark bodies organisms. They have been shown to seek out the darkest objects in their field of vision, occasionally leading them directly into potential predators that are resting on the seabed.

Tardigrade sized Ukfauna, interesting.

I removed the woodlands as suggested.

Cool, approved.

Ah fair

What about the third Spelunkhoe?

Oh, I'm going to change South Jujubee Temperate Sea to South Jujubee Temperate Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Since I'm fairly confident that's what you meant.

All looks great!

Nice. I didn't realize how may rivers connected here.