Colonial Trapinout

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Colonial Trapinout
(Pluritrappus colonicus)
Artwork of Colonial Trapinout
Species is extant.
Creator AnguaNatalia Other
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Subkingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Suborder
Family
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Phoenoplastida
Pansegmentocaudazoa
Segmentocaudazoa
Abyssovermes
Teratocrina
Pluritrappiformes
Pluritrappidae
Pluritrappus
Pluritrappus colonicus
Week/Generation 21/139
Habitat Arctic Polar Sea
Size 45 cm Long
Primary Mobility Sessile
Support Unknown
Diet Carnivore (Seascooter, Nectascooter, Burrarom, Pump Gilltail)
Respiration Unknown
Thermoregulation Ectotherm
Reproduction Asexual, Budding and Spores


The colonial trapinout split from its ancestor and moved to Arctic Polar Sea. It lost its bioluminescence and its lures now resemble twinkiiros and sandglobes. This attracts herbivores like the seascooter. When they get near, the trapinout starts leaving its shell at the other end and launches an immobilizing poison at its prey from the tentacles around its mouth.

Though it still uses spores sometimes in order to spread further along the sea floor, the colonial trapinout now reproduces mainly through budding. At some point, part of the hard shell turns soft, enabling a side-branch to grow from the parent. Once it has grown long enough, the shell hardens again and the new trapinout is untied from both the shell and its parent. This process causes an intricate network of curved tunnels to grow in the sea floor. It is not unusual for trapinouts to move to a different exit, but they never leave the colony. They will often hunt together, one luring the prey, the other immobilizing it.