Nixoutine

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Nixoutine
(Solumdomus aereptor)
Artwork of Nixoutine
Species is extinct.
23/145, Replaced by descendant
Creator NinthMusketeer Other
Taxonomy
Domain
Kindgom
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Teproutinia
Solumdomus
Solumdomus aereptor
Week/Generation 16/109
Habitat Flisch-Krakow Rainforest, Huggs Rainforest, Flisch Temperate Forest, Krakow Temperate Forest, Huggs Temperate Forest, Yokto Temperate Forest, Krakow Scrub, Huggs Scrub, Flisch Savanna, Huggs-Yokto Savanna, Krakow Plains, Krakow Rocky, Yokto Rocky, Flisch Rocky, Yokto Taiga, Flisch Taiga, Huggs Taiga
Size Microscopic
Primary Mobility Unknown
Support Unknown
Diet Soil Nutrients
Respiration Passive Diffusion
Thermoregulation Ectotherm
Reproduction Mitosis


The nixoutine has slowly replaced its ancestor on Glicker, it remains mostly the same in lifestyle and function, experiencing a smaller change in the reduction of flagella from four to two, fitting its less-active lifestyle. The only major change that has occurred is the nixoutine's ability to take atmospheric nitrogen (N2) in the air and break the powerful bond that makes it otherwise unusable to most organisms, allowing nixoutine to make it into a usable form. Since nitrogen is needed for the basic proteins that make up cells, the nixoutine plays a rather important roll in making the nitrogen usable, since its rather short cellular lifespan leads the nitrogen making it into the soil in the form of ammonium (NH4+) as the cell decays. This ammonium can then be used by other organisms and make its way into the food chain. For the nixoutine, however, all this just means that it needs to gain less of its nutrients from food, and thus needs to move around less, leaving more energy for reproduction.

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)

None found. Note that this does not necessarily mean it has no living relatives at all, but that, assuming all taxonomy is filled in, its entire class is extinct; any relatives it does have likely do not resemble it.