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Descriptions must be longer than that for fauna. The diet must also list everything.

This seems to be missing multiple lungs, as well as the breathing holes for said lungs.

With that long tail and those small wings, can this still fly?

How did this get to entirely different continents from where its ancestor lived? Also, many of those biomes no longer exist.

Creator: HethrJarrod

Name: Moleroot
Quillotuber Talpiferra
Ancestor: Quillfence

Habitat: Raptor Volcanic, Raptor Highboreal, Raptor Highvelt
Size: 1 meter avg, up to 2 meters in prime conditions.
Diet: Photosynthesis, Iron Oxide
Respiration: Passive (Stomata), Roots: Anaerobic (Iron reduction)
Thermoregulation: Ectothermic
Support: Cellulose Walls
Reproduction: Asexual, Tuber Budding, Spores


Each time it was buried in volcanic ash and rock, it was able to use iron reduction as a form of respiration until it was able to send out a shoot to photosynthesize again. Eventually it split off from its ancestor, the Quillfence, and invested more of its energy into the tuber instead of the stem.

The tuber of the Moleroot lives about 2 feet below the surface, growing toward the strongest source of iron that it detects.

Each dark band on the tuber represents growth segments with the detector cells out front directing the growth of the tuber. At the front end of the tuber, a shoot is sent out to collect sunlight for energy and to send out spores.

Toward the back of the Moleroot, old shoots and long dead bits of the tuber break off from it.



edits: corrected habitat, size
added: thermoregulation, Respiration

That size jump is probably too big. Also it's missing respiration

QUOTE (MNIDJM @ Jun 19 2022, 05:23 PM)

That size jump is probably too big. Also it's missing respiration

Fixed the size jump and added respiration.

I believe this is demonstrates a good enough understanding of the rules to allow for this to progress to the Organism Submission thread for further scrutiny

@HethrJarrod Welcome to the Sagan 4 Alpha Team! Please repost your submission in the Organism Submission subforum.

Terrestrial Cloudbubble (Bubblephyta terrestrialis)
Creator: Primalpikachu
Ancestor: Cloudbubble
Habitat: Barlowe Temperate Woodland, Barlowe Subtropical Woodland
Size: 5cm long for individuals; 100 meters for colonies
Support: Unknown
Diet: Photosynthesis
Respiration: Unknown
Thermoregulation: Unknown
Reproduction: Sexual (Spores)

This derivative of the Cloudbubble has lost its relationship with the Cloudbubble Cryoutine and thus, it can no longer fly. Instead, it has evolved as a carpeting flora to cover the forest floor and trunks of larger flora. The tendrils once used for capturing aeroplankton now serve to anchor the plant and to absorb nutrients. Tendrils which grow on the underside of the organism lost their pigment and act similar to roots, while the tendrils on the top side act similar to leaves. It is able to create root networks in order to share nutrients with its neighbors and to signal for reproduction. It has forgone asexual reproduction and replaces it with coordinated broadcast spawning. When it is time to reproduce, a chemical signal is sent throughout the root network which causes all the individuals within that area to produce and be ready to fertilize spores. Then during the next rain, all the mature individuals in the area will release their spores to be carried by the water. Like their ancestor, the spores are captured, fertilized and released again into the deluge.
Due to its flatter shape, the Terrestrial Cloudbubble is able to resist damage caused by fauna stepping on it. This more spread out shape and high reproduction rates helps it to carpet the forest floor very quickly, creating an abundant food source for herbivores.
Should a fire burn down a section of forest, these are one of the first organisms to grow back; they're naturally attracted to light, so they are often seen running high up tall flora, or accumulating densely in clearings.

is this basically like a deflated cloudbubble in anatomy?

The description is kinda short. I'd recommend elaborating some - for example, how does its new lifestyle change its reproduction?

For your convenience, I've split the feedback into sections.
Image

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You'll need to trim the image to get rid of empty space an focus on the organism itself. You'll also need to clean up the image: it's too dark, and the texturing is distracting, especially on the lower-left corner. This can be quickly fixed by enhancing contrast using a photo-manipulating program, such as the free program GIMP. (Other art programs might also work, but, since this seems to be a photo, GIMP is surely specialized for this task.)

Most organism submissions do not have text, except for the Generation number. Some users (e.g., myself) may also put their names discreetly on the image. I, personally, do not recommend putting text on it, and I recommend splitting the top view and side view into separate images, with the side view being a supplemental image. However, if you do want to keep the text on the image, I recommend writing more clearly and evenly. The "l" in "bubble", for example, looks like an "I". , You could also simply digitally color over the text and type in the text using a font that approximates your handwriting. For example, I typically use a modified (compressed and in italics) version of Maiandra GD to approximate my handwriting for my digital art. If you really want to show off your handwriting, you could use a program that scans how you handwrite certain letters to make you a custom font, but since submission images rarely use much text, that seems unneeded.

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The template at the beginning should not be spaced out. Each line should be separated by just one press of the enter key. While the proper formatting is easily observed on the submissions of established members, it's possible you were led astray by how it was formatted on the rules topic. (https://sagan4.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=1) The rules topic hasn't been updated in a while. Since spacing errors in the template are common, fixing the spacing on the rules should prove useful for future members.

You'll need to capitalize the things in the template. You have done so for your name in the Creator section and for "Barlowe", but the others still need capitalization.

For the size, for an individual-species submission, you should just provide an average for an individual and then a colony.

Description

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You'll need to capitalize consistently in the description. Some people capitalize organism names and others do not, but it needs to be consistent in the same description.

Why has it lost its relationship with the Cloudbubble Cryoutine?

On Earth, a majority of multicellular photosynthesizers (or at least the macro-sized ones) are in the kingdom Plantae. Here, photosynthesizers range over many kingdoms. They may be ecologically similar, but biologically, they may be quite different. Therefore, for things that fulfill the role of a "plant" on Earth, we use the term "flora" instead.

"aeroplankton" is one word.

"lose their pigment": Lost their pigment.
"pines": Did you mean "vines"?
You mention it mates. Can you describe how it mates? (Admittedly, "mating" is an odd term to use for an immobile flora, as it brings to mind animals, or their equivalent category here, "fauna")

It seems Disgustedorite "ninja'd" me while I was writing this. I do agree with her: the description is on the shorter side, and could benefit from elaboration.

Yes, pretty much;

It has forgone asexual reproduction and replaces it with coordinated broadcast spawning. When it is time to reproduce, a chemical signal is sent throughout the root network which causes all the plants with in that area to produce and be ready to fertilize spores. Then, all the plants in the area will release their spores to be carried by the wind. Like their ancestor, the spores are captured, fertilized and released again into the. air.

I will add this to the OG post

There isn't wind on the forest floor. There's a lot of water in a rainforest, though.

Thank you for the feed back both of you; I have updated the doc with a better picture, and am reworking the reproduction system

the reproduction system is updated to use water

You'll need to erase "top view" and the conspicuous stray lines.
You'll also need to stanardize the lighting: there's some yellow lighting at the bottom-right. You should be able to do this easily be using the magic wand tool in GIMP to select the background, and then decolorizing the selection. Alternatively, you could copy the organism itself, decolorize the whole picture, and re-paste the organism onto a layer on top of the original to restore color to the organism and just the organism.

The second part of a scientific name is not capitalized.

The bottom of a rainforest surely has more predators than the atmosphere: at the very least, genus group species. There's also the possibility larger organisms might trample it. Does it have any anti-herbivore adaptations, or does it simply grow so fast that the occasional herbivore feeding is easily endured? Is it resilient to being trampled? It is a bit odd that something descended from practically limitless sunlight in the atmosphere should litter the forst floor of a rainforest: that's surely dark. In fact, it's dark enough the Spectresnatch, an originally cave-dwelling organism with translucent skin, also lives in the rainforest (though it is nocturnal). It would probably make more sense for it to live in a neighboring habitat, on the rainforest's outskirts, in temporary clearings with plenty of light, or on branches way up in the canopy.

I scanned the picture in to remove the texture and darkness

lines and text are gone

moved its habitat to less dense woodlands

it has no deterrence strategy but is very fecund, so it acts as an ample source of nutrients for surface and arboreal herbivores.

its attraction to light causes also causes it to run up tall flora, and to accumulate densely in clearings.