Calcitine

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Calcitine
(Cryoutine calcitine)
Main image of Calcitine
Species is extant.
Information
CreatorOpDDay2001 Other
Week/Generation18/118
HabitatSublyme Limestone Caves
SizeMicroscopic
Primary MobilityUnknown
SupportUnknown
DietLithovore (Calcite)
RespirationUnknown
ThermoregulationUnknown
ReproductionBinary Fission
Taxonomy
Domain
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Cryoutine
Cryoutine calcitine
Ancestor:Descendants:

Calcitine has split from it's ancestor. Having spread to the Sublyme limestone caves, the tealspot cryoutine needed alternate means of nutrition, as there was little to no sunlight and no other lifeforms to infect parasitically. Eventually, tealspot cryoutine evolved to use calcite, a major part of limestone, as an energy source. As such, the calcitine has spread throughout the entire cave system. Calcitines live on rocks, and stalagmites. They've yet to spread to stalactites and the cave ceiling. Calcitines use the carbon from carbon-dioxide as a carbon-source, producing oxygen as a waste product.