Lijulait
| Lijulait | ||
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| (Lucipetra ssp.) | ||
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| Information | ||
| Creator | TheBigDeepCheatsy Other | |
| Week/Generation | 27/167 | |
| Habitat | Jujubee, LadyM, Mnid, Barlowe-Lamarck Shelf, Drake Shelf, Fermi Shelf, Kosemen-Wallace Shelf, Ramul-Steiner Shelf, Vonnegut Shelf, Driftwoods | |
| Size | 2.5 - 5 mm (Individual Structure) | |
| Primary Mobility | Unknown | |
| Support | Unknown | |
| Diet | Parasitic (Cellular Fluids) | |
| Respiration | Unknown | |
| Thermoregulation | Ectotherm | |
| Reproduction | Asexual, Budding, Spores | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Krakowozoa Petrozoa (info) Creolitha Mycopetroi Refulgicrustidae Lucipetra Lucipetra ssp. | |
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Lijulait absorbed their ancestor and have successfully spread into all oceans of Sagan 4. Lijulait has a similar life cycle as their ancestor. That being they starts out spores floating in the ocean; when these spores end up consumed by sea creatures, they will attach themselves to the gastric wall and are protected from the digestive acids thanks to hard membranes. Next, the growing lijulait spores will perforate from the inside out through the biggest gaps within the softest of tissue. Lijulait, just like its ancestors, feeds on cellular fluids and replaces them with salts that can block and damage blood vessels within hosts, causing serious injuries on creatures in advanced cases. On the outside, lijulait grows and forms tiny structures in pores and spaces between cells.
During the day, infected creatures look fairly similar to healthy ones aside from being more sluggish. But at night, the fully matured lijulait glows bright with its bio-luminescent spores, making the host into a target that predators can easily find and feed on, which gives the lijulait a newer and bigger host to feed from. Much like macululuchia, lijulait continues feeding on cellular fluids and producing bio-luminescent structures until it has colonized its host until the mass of structures gets too heavy and the host sinks to the seafloor and dies.
While all species of lijulait look and function similarly to one another, the key difference between them is the complexity of the light patterns that they display. Some species present basic light patterns such as spots, some others produce much more distinct light patterns such as rings or wavy patterns, and even others glow in particular locations to better entice predators without necessarily getting the prey killed right away; interestingly, these latter-most species of Lijulait are the least lethal of them all.