Hanging Frabooballs
| Hanging Frabooballs | ||
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| (Neokremathrostracon spp.) | ||
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| Information | ||
| Creator | Colddigger Other | |
| Week/Generation | 23/145 | |
| Habitat | Global (Sagan 4) | |
| Size | 20 cm long | |
| Primary Mobility | Unknown | |
| Support | Exoskeleton (chitin mineralized with sulfur) | |
| Diet | detritivore, herbivore | |
| Respiration | Unknown | |
| Thermoregulation | Ecothermic | |
| Reproduction | Sexual, lay eggs into nutritive sacks and carry them under the shell | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Kingdom Subkingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Binucleozoa Symbiovermes (info) Conchovermizoa (info) Euconchovermes Cornidactyliformes Rotothecavermidae Neokremathrostracon Neokremathrostracon spp. | |
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Hanging Frabooballs expanded their habitats from the cave system of the Rabid Sandstone Caves, splitting from the singular ancestral species to flourish and diversify into a wide array of species across the globe. They've lost their specialized symbiosis, useful for honing nutrient extraction after millions of years exposed to the same food source, in favor of a more generalized fermenting gut system, however the initial loss for their ancestor resulted in their body size rapidly diminishing to a quarter their initial size. The Hanging Frabooballs pack their guts with local mineral, soil, vegetation, and/or detritus and allow the microbial life that comes along with it to proliferate and break it down to create more desirable substances that the hosting fauna will absorb.
Different species may come in a wide range of colors to blend into their surroundings. Movement in their chosen feeding ground is achieved by the shifting of padded tentacles along their fused antennae, or the retraction of the antennae itself. Greater means of mobility is performed using a pair of strong arms used to push off a surface and shove or fling the Frabooball to new locations. Those species capable of feeding on toxic food sources often incorporate the substances into their tissues as a means of defense.
On their ventral side can be viewed the vestigial leg pads common to the fraboo lineage, though used for mobility in more basal species, on the Hanging Frabooballs they exist as extra tissue mainly to store water, though their excess surface aids in oxygen exchange to a degree when moist.