Island Colonialball

Island Colonialball
(Coloniaphyta marinus)
23/148, Integrated into Colonialballs
Information
Creator	Bardic Other
Week/Generation	23/147
Habitat	Jujubee Temperate Ocean (Sunlight Zone), North Jujubee Polar Ocean (Sunlight Zone), South Jujubee Polar Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Nergali Polar Coast, Oz Temperate Coast, Wolfgang Temperate Coast, Scifi Polar Shallows, Arctic Polar Sea, Raq Temperate Bay, Colddigger Polar Bay, Elerd Temperate Coast, Darkov Temperate Coast, Bumpy Polar Coast, Anguan Temperate Coast, Blitz Polar Coast, Cola Polar Shallows, North LadyM Polar Ocean (Sunlight Zone), LadyM Temperate Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Wind Polar Sea, Dass-Clarke Temperate Sea, Ramul Temperate Coast, Artir Polar Coast
Size	8 cm Wide
Primary Mobility	Sessile, Pleustonic
Support	Unknown
Diet	Photosynthesis
Respiration	Passive (Stomata)
Thermoregulation	Ectotherm
Reproduction	Super Fast Asexual Budding, Very Resistant Spores
Taxonomy
Domain Kingdom Subkingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species	Eukaryota Phoenoplastida Phoenophyta Spherophyta Euspherophyta Collospherales Coloniaphytaceae Coloniaphyta Coloniaphyta marinus

Ancestor:	Descendants:
Pioneer Colonialball	Colonialballs

The island colonialball replaced its ancestor, the pioneer colonialball. With their immense range and fast reproduction, it was only a matter of time before the colonialballs began to adapt to better rule the seas. The island colonialball is an incredible organism, found almost everywhere in Sagan 4's oceans. Although an individual ball is only 8 cm wide, the form immense raft-like structures, some almost reaching the size of small islands. As they continually bud off new globes, some remain on the main structure and help it grow even larger while some float off to start new colonies. Each individual globe grows roots, but as time progresses the roots of the colonialballs fuse together so that entire sections of the rafts share the same nutrients. This keeps all sections from getting too much or too little. The island-rafts are so large that small flying fauna (and amphibious fauna) often build nests on them. In some areas, very small, simple ecosystems can even be built on them.

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)

Colonialballs (genus Coloniaphyta)

Pioneer Raftballs (family Coloniaphytaceae)

Sheet Snotflora (order Collospherales)

Cloudgrump (class Euspherophyta)