Taxonomy/Sandbox

=Superkingdom - Archosaganizoa=

Kingdom - Mancerxia
These would be among the hardest-hit kingdoms in an alternate Sagan 4, the End-Huggian coronal mass ejection completely exterminating the Florapodia clade and leaving behind only the Protomancerxia Thermaparasitica as the kingdom’s sole surviving representative. With almost all available animal niches filled by descendants of the Binucleudetritivorus Thornworm, Carpotesta Luceremundare, and the Lilstar - the base of a completely unique Sagani “animal kingdom” - the Ukfauna and Rotoradiazoa would never have a chance of evolving (taken up by the shellstars and various asterzalians), and all future descendants of the thermaparasitica would retreat into quieter, microbial niches, most notably becoming the most diverse lineage of pathogen on the planet, gorging on the cytosols of countless host cells and pumping them full of enzymes with their proboscis organelles. Recently however, an offshoot of the Grapplers - a clade of actively predatory alternate Mancerxians - has taken up a blight-like fungal niche, aptly referred to as Starblights) (Amusingly enough, one phylum of asterzoan would converge eerily close to the long-lost florapods, right down to the paired fronds and cloaca-mouth, although - perhaps save for the curious Pitfall Asterplent and its descendants - this form would be exclusively sessile in the adult stage, unlike the generally quite peripatetic plents.

Division - Euglenamimia
=Superkingdom - Hexasaganizoa=

Phylum - Pentaflagellata
=Superkingdom - Mesosaganizoa=

Kingdom - Gastroboskia (foi)
(Proper foi would not evolve on an alternate Sagan 4, but remarkably similar lifeforms would arise from a kingdom of lithotrophic microbes, feeding on deposits of manganese and other metallic oxides, as well as organic detritus, though future descendants would parasitically feed on iron-rich blood. These analogue “foi” are also verifiably polynucleate, whereas with this universe’s foi, we can only assume.)

Kingdom - Microdendrontia
=Superkingdom - Protosaganizoa=