Blobsquid

Blobsquid (Nyctololigo lumos)
19/125, ice comet impact event
Creator	OathinBlood Other
Taxonomy
Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Subclass Order Family Genus Species	Eukaryota Carpozoa Teuthomorpha Cystoteuthia Pankrakenia Planktoteuthiformes Planktoteuthidae Nyctololigo Nyctololigo lumos
Week/Generation	15/99
Habitat	Jujubee Ocean (Abyss Zone)
Size	1 m Long
Support	Unknown
Diet	Carnivore (Centifin, Dark Swarmer, Glowing Urpoi)
Respiration	Unknown
Thermoregulation	Unknown
Reproduction	Sexual, Two Sexes (Donor and Carrier), Individual Eggs let Free into the Water

Descendant of	Ancestor of
Strainbean Eater

The blobsquid has split from it's ancestor, it's body having adapted to the abyssal waters of the ocean. It has grown dramatically smaller, losing much of it's body length. It's tentacles have shortened, but have become extremely thick and muscular, and have developed minuscule hooks along their length, so as to further decrease the chance of snagged prey escaping. Another noticeable change is the development of several false bioluminescent eyespots along the blobsquid's body, which serve multiple purposes. First, they disguise the blobsquid's true eyes, tricking predators into attacking non-vital spots. Secondly, they attract the blobsquid's prey close to it, since it's inky body is invisible against the black backdrop of the water. The blobsquid has also evolved a swarming behavior, causing hundreds to coalesce en masse, turning the black void of the abyssal ocean into a sparkling, glittering galaxy. However, the most important change is it's breathing mechanism, which involves a porous head-sac on it's body, which absorbs water and squeezes it through fine filters, which collect oxygen and diffuse it throughout the blobsquid's body. The sac is constantly clenching and unclenching to collect oxygen from the oxygen-deprived waters of the deep.

The blobsquid has changed the way it breeds. When the breeders meet a carrier, they impregnate it multiple times. Once a month, the carrier releases all the eggs it has been carrying at once, flooding the waters with hundreds of microscopic orbs of life. Several thousand of these are doomed to die, but the ones that hatch soon form their own swarms and repeat the process.

Living Relatives (click to show/hide)

These are randomly selected, and organized from lowest to highest shared taxon. (This may correspond to similarity more than actual relation)

Ikasaru (subclass Pankrakenia)

Marine Filtersquid (phylum Teuthomorpha)