Flashing Filtersquid

Flashing Filtersquid
(Refulgiteuthus fulgeo)
20/134, Loss of symbiote
Information
Creator	KingAcer Other
Week/Generation	10/62
Habitat	LadyM Open Ocean
Size	55 cm Long
Primary Mobility	Unknown
Support	Unknown
Diet	Filterfeeder (Small organisms from seawater)
Respiration	Unknown
Thermoregulation	Unknown
Reproduction	Sexual (Spawns hundreds of eggs directly into the water)
Taxonomy
Domain Genus Species	Eukaryota Refulgiteuthus Refulgiteuthus fulgeo

Ancestor:	Descendants:
Filtersquid	Lightvesting Filtersquid Marine Filtersquid

The flashing filtersquid replaced the filtersquid. It was a long time before the filtersquids got used to the flashing of the flash cells. When they did get used to them, they just dove into the clouds of flash cells floating in the water to feed on them. Later the filtersquids developed a sac on their back in which they store all the flash cells they eat. The flashing filtersquid is able to increase the pressure in this sac so that all the flash cells light up. This causes a very bright light which scares and confuses all of the predators trying to eat the flashing filtersquid. The flashing filtersquid still eats other small organisms in the water, but it also spend some time during the day recharging the flash cells by floating on the surface so the flash cells can use their photosynthesis.

Living Relatives (click to show/hide)

These are randomly selected, and organized from lowest to highest shared taxon. (This may correspond to similarity more than actual relation)

Marine Filtersquid (family Marephateuthidae)

Red Phantomsquid (order Mareteuthii)

Scootin Quid (class Eutentaculata)