Kontributor Mynor

Kontributor mynor is the first of the kontributor line and split from its ancestor, megaorthoceros circumorphos and began to pursue an existence strictly within the confines of the sunlit areas of the LadyM Ocean, where they first began to evolve. While the adaptation that created the species was not one of the more fantastic sudden evolutionary leaps that Sagan IV had witnessed in its history, it was still a powerful one. In kontributor mynors, the flagella of the female colonies have fused together, creating a webbed network between each individual. This allows excess nutrients from one body to pass along into the rest of the colony simply by passing through the network that exists between them. In contribution to this, the connections between their bodies which hold them together have opened up some, also to allow nutrients to pass through, although this will only work between adjacent individuals, while the network will distribute food evenly between all. The entire colony can now last longer without as much food, which helps in their survival between locating dead prey within the confines of their oceanic home. While they can many times be found below the surface of the waves, they are most often found feasting on bloated carcasses at the surface, where they will remain floating long enough for large numbers of colonies to feed before it finally succumbs to gravity and sinks. The networking system has allowed them to double in size as they are more effective with consumption. Males have not grown in size, however, as no change has occurred in them. As such they are still chemovoric in nature, and are many times smaller than the opposite gender. The adaptation of the kontributors is such an advanced one that it has effectively put a strained existence on certain pockets of circumorphos in LadyM's sunlit waters, although their ancestors still thrive there, albeit not as well due to the competition. This being said, there is still enough corpses to go around for both species to survive due to their microscopic size. Should a female of the colony perish, however, the two females who flank her will absorb her nutrients back into themselves (with roughly half of the nutrients going to one and the other half to the other) and they will release pheromones to attract nearby clouds of males into their proboscises. This procedure is identical to that of the M. circumorphos. Due to competition between the males within each cloud to reach a female's proboscis first, a clear defining line has emerged between two groups of males, although the branching has occurred so recently that both types are impossible to tell apart from one another unless witnessed in a dash for the female's proboscis. One group are known as sprinters, and are somewhat faster than others in swimming speed yet are not very precise in their ability to adjust course. The other type are known as dodgers, and are slower but somewhat more agile, allowing for faster and tighter turns in the case that a female suddenly get swept in another direction. Females will produce both types of males while they are halfway to maturity, and both types continue to congregate together in the same clouds of their ancestors.