Pioneer Colonialball

Pioneer Colonialball
(Coloniaphyta pioneerus)
23/?, unknown cause
Information
Creator	Hydromancerx Other
Week/Generation	23/146
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	4 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 pioneerus

Ancestor:	Descendants:
Colonialball	Island Colonialball

The pioneer colonialball replaced its ancestor, the colonialball. It has spread across the surface of the Sagan 4's oceans and coastlines. Its major success lies in its roots which allow for the growth of the nitrogen fixing microbe called the nixus. It has developed a symbiotic relationship with the nixus by creating nodules for them to grow in and in return the nixus produces a nitrogen compound that helps the pioneer colonialball grow. When the pioneer colonialball dies the fixed nitrogen is released and it sinks down into the depths of the ocean to fertilize the seabed. In addition as the pioneer colonialball not only spreads nixus to new biomes but nitritus, nitratus and denitritus, thus completing the nitrogen cycle in barren ocean biomes. In turn it has also spread the nitritus, nitratus and denitritus into deeper ocean zones due to it sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Those biomes include not only the zones, slopes and floors of Jujubee and LadyM but the vents and cold seeps that exist down there too.

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)

Hengende (order Collospherales)

Cloudgrump (class Euspherophyta)