Boring Centiworm

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Boring Centiworm
(Limimordulus hohum)
Artwork of Boring Centiworm
Species is extinct.
22/?, unknown cause
Creator Hydromancerx Other
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Subkingdom
Phylum
Class
Subclass
Superorder
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Phoenoplastida
Pansegmentocaudazoa
Segmentocaudazoa
Pluriptera
Anopterigia
Geobdelloi
Eugeobdelloi
Limimordulidae
Limimordulus
Limimordulus hohum
Week/Generation 16/106
Habitat Nuke Rainforest, Nuke Temperate Forest
Size 10 cm Long
Primary Mobility Unknown
Support Unknown
Diet Herbivore (Stout Lamp-Palm, Mega Orbitree, Seasonal Mega-Orbitree), Detritivore
Respiration Unknown
Thermoregulation Ectotherm
Reproduction Sexual, Egg-like Spores (wet soil), Three sexes


The boring centiworm split from its ancestor the rainforest centiworm. It is smaller than its ancestor and now mainly eats the wood of trees; this includes both living and dead trees. It has evolved sharp teeth on each mandible for boring through the wood. Like its ancestor one of its three mandibles has chemoreceptive hairs on it, which it uses to sniff out wood as well as determine where it should go. Its underside fins are merged with its belly and are used as "scoots" to help it move through the wet soil, and has developed many more segments so it bends easier in this substrate. Those that live in the temperate climate can stay dormant during the winter. When spring comes around they become active again.

It breathes between its segments and must be in moist soil otherwise its micro-lungs will dry out and suffocate the creature. It must use puddles to lay its spore-like eggs. They do this once a year where each of the three sexes expels its part of the reproduction process. They require one egg-like spore, one sperm and one hormone cell. Without the hormone cell from the third sex bonding to the egg-like spore, it will not allow the sperm to enter the egg-like spore.

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)
  • Piloswrigum (order Eugeobdelloi)
  • Swarmeater (subclass Anopterigia)
  • Clarke Cleaner Echofin (class Pluriptera)