Colonial Trapinout

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Colonial Trapinout
(Pluritrappus colonicus)
Main image of Colonial Trapinout
Species is extant.
Information
CreatorAnguaNatalia Other
Week/Generation21/139
HabitatArctic Polar Sea
Size45 cm Long
Primary MobilitySessile
SupportUnknown
DietCarnivore (Seascooter, Nectascooter, Burrarom, Pump Gilltail)
RespirationUnknown
ThermoregulationEctotherm
ReproductionAsexual, Budding and Spores
Taxonomy
Domain
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Species
Eukaryota
Phoenoplastida
Pansegmentocaudazoa
Segmentocaudazoa
Abyssovermes
Teratocrina
Pluritrappiformes
Pluritrappidae
Pluritrappus
Pluritrappus colonicus
Ancestor:Descendants:

The colonial trapinout split from its ancestor and moved to Arctic Polar Sea. It lost its bioluminescence and its lures now resemble twinkiiros and sandglobes. This attracts herbivores like the seascooter. When they get near, the trapinout starts leaving its shell at the other end and launches an immobilizing poison at its prey from the tentacles around its mouth.

Though it still uses spores sometimes in order to spread further along the sea floor, the colonial trapinout now reproduces mainly through budding. At some point, part of the hard shell turns soft, enabling a side-branch to grow from the parent. Once it has grown long enough, the shell hardens again and the new trapinout is untied from both the shell and its parent. This process causes an intricate network of curved tunnels to grow in the sea floor. It is not unusual for trapinouts to move to a different exit, but they never leave the colony. They will often hunt together, one luring the prey, the other immobilizing it.