Sheet Snotflora

The sheet snotflora split from its ancestor. Instead of living freely floating, this species forms mats on hard grounds and muddy grounds not disturbed through currents. Their slime coating is used for collecting marine snow they feed on. As a novelty, sheet snotflora developed thin pseudopods they use to move food particles through the mucus sheet and are able to communicate with each other through chemicals; this way, food particles can be moved towards globes that don't receive emough nutrients themselves or the release of spores can be coordinated. Sheet snotflora growing on sunken carcasses will also retreive nutrients from its substrate. The carrion snotflora is a smaller variety that colonizes sunken carcasses and competes with the common snotflora in this regard. It possesses longer pseudopods that root into the carcass to retrieve nutrients. The slime coat contains foul-tasting chemicals to keep other scavengers away, which give the slime a reddish colour. It can survive in suboxic environments by utilizing sulphur respiration, but prefers oxygen in aerobic conditions. Its spores can stay dormant for up a year. The hitchhiker snotflora lives on the skin of larger animals and uses the slime as an attaching method while filtering food items with its pseudopods. It lives in small groups of closely associated orbs.