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Name: Mangal Shrubite (Australocornus marinus)
Ancestor: Tidal Shrubite
Creator: HethrJarrod
Habitat: (type: polar, subpolar; flavor: Sunlight Zone, Coast, Mangal, Beach)
Spores (Subpolar South Jujubee Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Polar South Jujubee Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Mnid Subpolar Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Krakow Polar Shallow, Mnid Polar Ocean (Sunlight Zone)
Adult (Xeno Subpolar Coast, Colddigger Polar Coast, Raq Subpolar Coast, Badger Subpolar Coast, Wind Polar Coast, Morokor Subpolar Coast, Arctic Subpolar Coast, Yannick Polar Coast, Scifi Subpolar Coast, Nemo Subpolar Coast, Blocks Mangal, Vivus Subpolar Mangal, Bone Subpolar Mangal, Badger Subpolar Beach, East Morokor Subpolar Beach, West Morokor Subpolar Beach, Voyager Archipelago Polar Beach, Wind Polar Beach, Raq Subpolar Beach, Raq Archipelago Subpolar Beaches, Xeno Subpolar Beach, East Colddigger Polar Beach, West Colddigger Polar Beach, Arctic Subpolar Beach, Fermi Archipelago Beaches, Oofle Archipelago Subpolar Beaches, Oofle Subpolar Beach, Scifi Subpolar Beaches, Vonnegut Archipelago Subpolar Beaches, Vonnegut Subpolar Beach)
Size: 2.5 m tall
Support: Silica and calcium carbonate shell, Soft spongy center
Diet: Planktivore
Respiration: Passive (via pores on the top and bottom sections)
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual: Haploid aquatic spores, Asexual: Budding

The mangal shrubite diverged from its ancestor, spreading to the southern polar and subpolar regions and establishing itself as the main flora of the subpolar and polar mangals in the southern regions of Sagan 4. Unlike its ancestors, it does not grow in as tight as a spiral. It does still spiral, but near imperceptibly.

The mangal shrubite has a soft spongy core surrounded by a shell of calcium carbonate. The spongy core exudes a sticky sap-like substance, ensnaring organisms and debris that drift onto the mangal shrubite’s shell. This substance is slowly drawn into the pores of the shrubite and whatever particles have been caught in it are digested by the core.

When one mangal shrubite's shell comes into contact with another, the point of contact between the two does not get renewed as quickly, and eventually the two shrubites merge as one. This phenomenon is known as inosculation, which occurs when two individual shrubite growing in close proximity become morphologically joined. Because of this mangal shrubites can form interesting shapes.

During the end-summer mating season, the haplospores are released from the tip of the mangal shrubite. Other mangal shrubites capture these spores with the sap and exchange genetic information. The spongy core starts to form a shell around the spore until they are covered by a small shell of calcium carbonate as well. The spore then breaks off the mangal shrubite and falls into the water. They do not usually become attached to their own parent stalk, due to a unique chemical signature, acting as a sort of teflon.


==Internal Structure==


Purple - Reproduction cell; located near the top
Orange - Shrubite Growth cell - creates new cells to grow the mangal shrubite
Yellow - Shrubite Heartwood - Basal Shrubite cell, provides support
Red - Consumer cells responsible for eating, they create the shell of the shrubite

This post has been edited by HethrJarrod: Jun 6 2023, 06:50 PM

My issues with the fungal core thing aside, the growth form is very strange. What's going on here?

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Apr 4 2023, 05:39 PM)

My issues with the fungal core thing aside, the growth form is very strange. What's going on here?

The haplospores stick to each other easily.

And where the shell of different mangal shrubite come into contact with each other, they shell isn't needed in that spot anymore and doesn't get renewed as fast.

These don't look to be shaped anything like the ancestor. Where are the pores for eating and gas exchange? What happened to its internal living calcified structure? Why is it suddenly fungus-like instead of sponge-like as the direct ancestor seemed to be described?

Changed the description to spongy core instead of fungal, and fixed other references in description (hope I got them all)

What about the pores? They are visible in the ancestor.

Do we have any kinds of shrubites that grow like this?....

Updated the art...now with more pores

there's a bit of an odd jump to the next line after

"spreading to the southern polar and subpolar"

QUOTE (colddigger @ May 2 2023, 02:37 AM)

there's a bit of an odd jump to the next line after "spreading to the southern polar and subpolar"

Deleted odd statement. It was a repeat of earlier information that was already present in the first paragraph. Since it sounded off, and was just repeating info; probably didn’t need to be there.

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: Y
Art clear?: Y
Gen number?: Y
All limbs shown?: Y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: No, needs an image of a stand-alone member of the species included
Realistic additions?: Y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: N
Creator?: Y

Ancestor:
Listed?: Y
What changes?:

• External?: Inosculation
• Internal?: Sap-like substance
• Behavioral/Mental?:

Are Changes Realistic?:Maybe
New Genus Needed?: Y

Habitat:
Type?: 2/3
Flavor?: 3/3
Connected to Ancestor?: Y
Contiguous?: No, this is an impossible spread as there's no way to spread this specifically
Wildcard?: N/A

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Within range?: Y
Exception?: N/A

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does it Fit Lifestyle?: Y
Does It Fit Size?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Transition Rule?:Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does it Fit Habitat?: Y
Does It Fit Size?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Description:
Length?: A bit short
Capitalized correctly?: No, species names are not capitalized in the middle of a sentence.
Replace/Split from ancestor?: Needed
Other?: N/A

Opinion: Pending: Please see the highlighted sections. This needs a lot of corrections, otherwise it will be .

@HethrJarrod, did you see the checklist?

Yes. I had made changes to it.

1) Including a stand-alone image
2) Fixed the habitat range
3) Added Binomial name
4) Added that it split from its ancestor
5) Fixing capitalization

This post has been edited by HethrJarrod: May 17 2023, 06:36 PM

Image:
1. Nothing significant. While there are stray lines and uncolored areas, and this would be better with those fixed, they are pretty subtle and therefore excusable.

Template

1. Its habitat is contiguous only because of travel through the open ocean, such as South Jujubee Ocean. However, it requires contact with a substrate and lives in the sunlight zone, so it can’t live in the open ocean. You’ll need to specify it exists only as spores in incompatible habitats (and do so in the template).
2. For a single organism submission, use an average for listing size, and give more specific details in the description.
3. You’ll need to capitalize the specific details in the template, such as in the Support, Respiration, and Reproduction sections.
4. Most fauna (in the sense of “non-flora”) can be considered consumers (heterotrophs) by default, so “consumer” is redundant.
5. It would be useful to specify the planktonic size range. Krill are technically plankton, but they are vastly bigger than, say, picoplankton.

Description:

1. “Unlike its ancestors, it does not grow in as tight as a spiral.” It doesn’t seem to grow in a spiral at all here. It looks like a tusk.

2. How does it draw in ensnared plankton caught on its sticky sap-like substance?

3. “Mangal shrubite can form”: “Mangal shrubites”, you mean?

4. “Off of”: “off”, or “off from”.

5. How does it avoid digesting the spores?

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Incidentally, we’re going to need to specify the ecological differences between a polar beach and a glacier beach. They would surely be different.

Oh yeah, this can't live on glacial beaches.