Suction Crastrum

Suction Crastrum
(Crescoquin adhaero)
22/?, unknown cause
Information
Creator	BioCat Other
Week/Generation	16/109
Habitat	Somarinoa Coast
Size	2 cm Wide
Primary Mobility	Unknown
Support	Unknown
Diet	Photosynthesis
Respiration	Unknown
Thermoregulation	Unknown
Reproduction	Budding
Taxonomy
Domain Genus Species	Eukaryota Crescoquin Crescoquin adhaero

Ancestor:	Descendants:
Crastrum	Thorny Crastrum Surfacestrum Lowtide Crastrum Spiny Castrum

The suction crastrum split from its ancestor and inhabited the some of the coasts of Glicker. Unlike its passively swimming ancestor it has found a new niche to live in, the faces of different crystal floras that can be found all around Somarinoa Coast and Yokto Coast. It attaches itself to its host using many small suction circles that act just like its movement and floating mechanism using the water expanding mechanism on the ring itself making it expand or shrink and suck onto whatever the suction crastrum is touching. Generally they swim around sucking to almost anything like rocks and other creatures, still in order to find their rather safe crystal hosts they release enzymes once attached to anything that detect its membrane structure and have a unique sensitivity to the crystals’ membrane. The suction crastrum might be seen as a parasite as some sort, or at least a damaging organism towards the crystals as they shade little parts of them and damage their overall light absorption. Still most of the times the suction crastrum doesn’t cover more than 5%-10% of the crystal. Also they give some sort of protection for the crystal as when the crystal gets eaten all the suction crastrums on it escape in a green swarm confusing the herbivore sometimes scaring it away.