Added more about the tracheal system

I'll add more about the initial questions later,
I don't often think about when a thing may be active.

No that's autocorrect

I color my art using Crayola colored pencils.

I sketch a drawing with a pencil, then either follow the lines I want with a fine tip pen first or color first, but I always do both but the time I'm done.

I realized I want to clarify something more about their internal anatomy in order to make an aquatic form in the future.

I'll do that tomorrow.

Don't change it. It helps establish body chemistry.

We will also need to specify what their oxygen carrier is, and what protein complex is used for capturing valuable metal from the degraded blood cells, we use ferritin for our iron for example. There's probably a magnesium equivalent, or any other metal equivalent ...

Thank you

I created this with the intention of making more species out of it.

I added an s

I added more to the end of the description.

I was wondering if it was too sparse, does this clarify enough? Are there more things that come to mind that need to be added to the description?

Floraverms Floraverm ssp.
Creator: colddigger
Ancestor: Vermees
Habitat: Global
Size: 1mm - 5 cm long
Support: unknown
Diet: Herbivore, Detritivore
Respiration: Semi-Active (Unidirectional Tracheae)
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Hermaphrodite (Live Young)

The Floraverm split from its ancestor the Vermees and spread across the globe in much the same way as it. They've specialized further into the niche of consuming flora detritus, as well as consuming fresh flora tissues. The majority of the species lean toward 1 centimeter or less in size, though there are many goliaths in the genus reaching up to 5 centimeters. The majority of small species can complete their lifecycle in a matter of weeks, the smallest being 1 millimeter reaching maturity in 10 days under optimal conditions. As ectotherms their activity is reliant on heat availability in their environment, tropical species during both night and day are common while temperate regions are dominated by diurnal species with few nocturnal forms. In places with cold seasons hibernation must be practiced.

Just like the rest of the lineage they belong to, they inherited a radula-like spine-covered inverted mouth to scrape up food, from the Clear-Wing Worm. The Floraverm group enlarged this mouth to take in larger amounts of food and further pulverize it. Their first segment has diminished, with their inverting mouth leading directly into a crop-like first segment of their intestine. This intestine makes up the majority of their biomass, allowing them to rapidly extract nutrients from what they eat, while continuously shoving more food into it.

Floraverms have simplified their segmentation with the expansion of their intestine, with each segment, with exception to their first one, now bearing roughly the same external traits.
Their chitinous segments have been thinned to the point of being virtually non-existent, with the thickest portion being a supportive ring which each of their eyes sits upon. On the ventral side of the segment chitinous hooks have developed to allow better grip when climbing or crawling around.

The entrance holes to their simple tracheal system are concentrated between their first and second segments, the exit holes between their last segment and the one prior. Their single chambered pump for this system sits a quarter of the way down their body from the head. It is supported by internal structures and uses muscle both for inflating and deflating. Their hemoglobin-containing blood allows these tubes to remain relatively simple compared to other tracheal systems. The looped branching of the trachea tubes could be considered reminiscent of a unidirectional lung, if the lung were spread down the length of the organism. To maintain the unidirectional nature of this system pieces of tracheal tubing are fused in such a manner as to create a tesla valve, this distinct fusion can be found at both the front and back ends of the tracheal system.

The majority of herbivorous species specializes in their own particular handful of flora, and even then particular parts of said flora. Some stick to leaves, some burrow into soft stems, roots, and new growth, while others even specialize in infesting fruits and sporangium. Their need for regular regularly available food, and their style of mouthparts, limits them from bothering to consume tougher parts of flora such as wood, thick chitin, tough seeds, or bark. Some will specialize in Plent lineages, but most prefer purple or black flora as hosts. Others will specialize in crystal or even worm flora, though avoiding the thick chitin. Flora with chemical weaponry to deter herbivores are left alone in favor of easier food. There are various forms, typically more basal, that survive in leaf litter and detritus, however this niche is far more dominated by their ancestor the Vermees.

Commonly they can be found stuck to the undersides or edges of leaves they're eating, or inside the soft tissued stems they're hollowing out. A Floraverm can easily spend its entire life on a single host. One large Obsidoak could hold generations before they skeletonize it and disperse into the forest for new hosts.

Larger ones tend to be solitary, but a common lifestyle among Floraverms is existing in tight clusters that move together. This can startle predators into thinking they're confronted with a body much larger than an individual Floraverm. Few members of the genus are found living amphibious lives, scooting around the beds of rivers and streams, or the intertidal zones of beaches. All require terrestrial access for air since they cannot swim, with a very small handful managing to spread among the Driftwood Islands, and none are truly pelagic.

I'm very interested in elaboration of the flower structure and sexual spore interactions to produce an embryo.

Given it is a single mating type how it prevents self fertilization should be brought up.

Some plants are simply not compatible with themselves, membrane markers prevent pollen tubes from forming from their own pollen.
Others have their stamen or pistil forming and becoming available before the other.

These wouldn't necessarily have the same structures, but they could have sequences of development.




Also the use of artery as a simile is a curious one. What is meant by it?

Cool, yea 4-6 days makes more sense, these must be pretty detrimental to their house given that.

I was thinking fruit flies when I was reading about it.

QUOTE (TheBigDeepCheatsy @ Nov 9 2021, 02:09 AM)

QUOTE (colddigger @ Nov 9 2021, 02:35 AM) It relies on the Chickenpear, specifically, which may still have some writing mistakes that need to be dealt with. I also want to change a few words in this ones description as well. Yeah, admittedly noticed some grammar errors in the Chickenpear.

Could you point them out to me?
I don't always catch my mistakes.

It relies on the Chickenpear, specifically, which may still have some writing mistakes that need to be dealt with.

I also want to change a few words in this ones description as well.

How big are their eggs? 3 days to mature size is pretty quick for 1cm depending on initial size.
I'm interested in finding a cell colony example that grows that fast...

I like the addition of the coffee flavor and illness it afflicts.

Wait, the maulwort said it had oxalic acid, which is sour and slightly citrus like from my experience eating oxalis. where does the coffee flavor come from?
Regardless, I like that bit. Very monarch butterfly.

"" The rate of this accumulation is reliant on the available arsenic in their local environment, this leads to variations in how toxic the species is from population to population. However, their accumulation of the element leads to an increase of bioavailable arsenic in the area for future generations as they die or shed it back into the top layers of the soil. ""

Arsenic is found in sandstone environments too, it's pretty much found everywhere in various concentrations.

But I still agree that their success should vary on environmental concentrations.

The Chickenpear also brings more into the biosphere and increases it's bioavailable presence in the surrounding soil as time goes on.

Making some more things that use it is sounding interesting, maybe a tree that uses it as an insecticide and drags it up from deep underground.

That's a fair point.
I thought I saw somewhere that yellow was due to sulfur, but even if that were true the actual sulfur and arsenic levels would vary quite a bit.

The more successful forms would be located in areas where the soil is rich in sulfur and arsenic, becoming less successful as the young accumulate and build their arsenal more slowly when there is less raw material in the environment.


I'll add the information about arsine and environmental influences in a while.

I'm happy to see another of these from an oddball lineage

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK23101...20anion%20state.

Everything living in the yellow soil areas is likely passing basic arsenic through them right now. Luckily arsenic doesn't accumulate super readily in living things, and gets passed out of them after a few days whether eaten from dirt or from plants living in said dirt. But this isn't working with basic arsenic, it's using it as part of a larger compound, I was thinking maybe it could break down into arsine gas among other things but ambiguity in organic chemistry leaves it open to more things.

I can add this information if people prefer specification that arsine is included, and reference to arsenic distributed in sulfur soils.

I'll fix the typos, thank you.

Edits have been done, thank you

I like it, good addition.

I find the diet of carrion through the top curious, maybe detail about how that's developed a bit more.

I think storing a tool is fine, otters do it, birds do it, augmenting a tool is good too, birds do it, primates do it.

I don't know too much about the clade though.

That's a good idea.

Maybe using one wing for shade and one for balance.

Ah that is a significant problem.

At least one descendent solved this with wind.

Oh shoot, I must not have fully copied the name. I'll edit later.

I have at least one more that I'll be making.

I wanted make a biennial plent and this clade was suggested.