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{{Species
|name = Hitchhiker Hexspourus
|week = 21
|generation = 139
|creator = Clarke
|image = Hitchhiker_Hexpourous.png
|ancestor = Polar Hexspourus
|size = Microscopic
|habitat = Maineiac Volcanic, Razo Volcanic, Blocks Volcanic, Vivus Volcanic, Dixon Volcanic
|diet = Consumer ([[Hitchhiker Gildling]])
|thermoregulation=Ectotherm
|reproduction= Asexual, Spores
▲|family = Tripluridae
|genus = Trisplures
|species = gildus
}}
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While their appearance has changed somewhat drastically, only a small amount of specialization is found in the organism. They now form into a shape similar to a tube flattened on one side. The flatter side on the bottom now has cells that produce many more cilia on the outside, while the rest barely have any at all to lessen drag. The greatest change, though, is on the inside of the tube, where a primitive digestive system is formed. The front is now almost completely composed of its ancestor's chemoreceptors, which detect concentrations of gildlings, then release the same chemicals as its ancestors, which help guide the rest of the cells in the colony toward the food source. When a clump of gildlings passes through the area with the chemoreceptors, they come to a section where their are more flagellum than chemoreceptors. When a flagellum touches a gildling cell, it curls inward quickly, grasping and pulling on the cell. When multiple flagellum do this at once, it causes the cell to rupture, and the nutrients to move to the next section of cells. There, modified chemoreceptors form a mesh that lasts for the majority of the colony's length, taking in not the telltale chemicals the gildlings produce, but actually absorbing needed nutrients, which will be redistributed to the rest of the colony. In addition to these, it also has tiny cilia which keep fluid moving through it.
It now has a specific way of reproducing. Instead of simply using
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