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|creator = Coolsteph
|image = Pricklecone_Keryh.png
|ancestor = Fang Keryh
|size = 1.4 cm Tall
|habitat = Vivus Volcanic, Vivus Rocky
|diet = Larvae: Consumer ([[Ziraber]] gut flora), Adult: Chemosynthesis (Sulfur)
|thermoregulation=Ectotherm
|reproduction= Sexual, Hermaphrodite, Eggs
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|genus =Metamothermata
|species = aculeus
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The pricklecone keryh is specialized in infecting the ziraber.
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Larvae
Oddly enough, the larvae act like sea anemones of the large intestine. Though the larvae can absorb nutrients floating around through their tentacles, they are also capable of catching and digesting the microbial symbiotes of its host. Sometimes they are indirectly helpful, eating pestilences that might otherwise make its host sick. Other times they are indirectly harmful, eating guttoplaques that help the ziraber digest its food. Larvae can't fully digest the microbes they eat, so they use the host's circulatory system to get rid of their wastes. They do this by emitting chemicals from their prongs that cause capillaries to grow at their bases. This dense network of capillaries makes spots occupied by pricklecone keryh larvae distinctly bright green. Eventually, these wastes emitted by the larvae induce
While in transit, each larvae brings its prongs and tentacles together and secretes a thin mucus coat. With its prongs and tentacles stuck together with mucus, it assumes a cylindrical shape. Being too big to travel through the blood vessel and pop out from the skin, they instead are excreted with the ziraber's owl-pellet-like dung. If conditions are sufficiently moist---usually while it's raining or after a rain---the larvae separate their tentacles (but not their prongs) and crawl into the surrounding soil. There, they orient themselves upside-down and grow into adult forms.
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