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Anipedia = Blue Blood (Copper Based)

Binucleozoa (Crystalzoa) = Red Blood (Iron Based) / Green Sap (Green Chlorophyll)

Binucleozoa (Sagavermes) = Red Blood (Iron Based)

Carpozoa = Red Blood (Iron Based)

Cillognathias = Yellow/Pink (Colbalt Based)

Cleistocorpia = Blue-Green Blood/Sap (Blue-Green Chlorophyll)

Eukaryaviruses = Too Small

Gastroboskia = Brown (Manganese Based)

Kyanozoa = Cyan Sap (Cyan Chlorophyll)

Magneferrubiota = Very Red (Super Iron Based that appears as liquid rust.)

Mancerxa (Konydonta) = Green Blood (Sulfur Based)

Mancerxa (Phytozoa) = Green Blood/Sap (Green Chlorophyll)

Melanophyta = Black Sap (Black Chlorophyll)

Phoenophyta = Purple Sap (Purple Chlorophyll)

Protobia = Too Small

I really, really hate this post. Extensive blood and sap rant to follow.

This post has been edited by Disgustedorite: Feb 7 2021, 10:52 AM

So, blood and sap. They don't work that way.

First, blood.
- Crastrums, as small primitive algae-like planimals, have no need for blood (or true sap for that matter) and are never said to have evolved any. If they have any circulatory system at all, it should be filled with clear, sugary hemolymph.
- Gastroboskia are unicellular organisms and should not have blood at all.
- Many of these blood pigments seem to have been added for the sake of variation instead of being even remotely realistic.
- Cobalt-based blood is not pink!
- Plents cannot function biologically with chlorophyll as their blood pigment. All plents should be suffocating to death from syrupy blood that cannot flow. It would be more plausible for them to have red blood, either hemoglobin (chlorophyll with iron in place of manganese) or leghemoglobin (an oxygen-carrier used by plants in real life). Pinnaglobin (brown blood) may also be feasible, since plents use manganese for their chlorophyll, they should have access to hemoglobin anyway (as it is present in all aerobic organisms), hemoglobin can be swapped out for hemocyanin pretty easily, and pinnaglobin is just hemocyanin with a manganese.
- Not all animals should have blood! They don't just get it from existing!

And then there's sap:
- Sap does not contain chlorophyll. None of these sap colors make sense as a result. They should be clear or tinted; crystal flora sap is almost certainly pink or reddish due to the red pigmentation of the core.
- Only vascular flora have sap! Stuff doesn't just get sap from existing!

This post has been edited by Disgustedorite: Feb 7 2021, 11:19 AM

Would it help to suppose plents generally have green blood for the same reason green-blooded skinks have green blood? The green-blooded skinks still have hemoglobin, but their blood is green from a breakdown product of cells thought to protect them against malaria. (Other species. can have greenish blood or use of the pigment, for the same reason.) Or should they use chlorocruorin?

The Xenowasps genus groups, as they are widespread and some of their members drink blood, could have a mosquito-like role in spreading malaria-like diseases. (Historically, the Bloodbee could have done this, and it's possible the mucus-eaters of the Xenobees genus group could spread disease similarly.) Xenowasps, Xenobees, or their ancestors spreading diseases probably wouldn't have been the cause of plents having green blood, but their widespread status now may discourage plents from evolving away from the green blood trait where they co-occur.