Tako
| Tako | ||
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| (Megaorthoceros chilopodamimus) | ||
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| 22/?, unknown cause | ||
| Information | ||
| Creator | Somarinoa Other | |
| Week/Generation | 21/138 | |
| Habitat | Jujubee Ocean (Twilight Floor), Temperate Jujubee Ocean (Sunlight Zone) | |
| Size | Microscopic | |
| Primary Mobility | Unknown | |
| Support | Unknown | |
| Diet | Detritivore | |
| Respiration | Unknown | |
| Thermoregulation | Ectotherm | |
| Reproduction | Sexual Budding | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Kingdom Class Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Cnidolibiota Megaorthocerosia Megaorthocerosales Megaorthocerosaceae Megaorthoceros Megaorthoceros chilopodamimus | |
| Ancestor: | Descendants: |
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Some megaorthoceros segnoneustes traveled down a similar evolutionary path as their descendants, the megaorthoceros circumorphos; however it revealed itself in a very different fashion. Instead of a circular grouping, these new organisms, known as the takos, exist in a more oval or worm-like shape. They have sunk to the sea floor, causing them to avoid replacing their ancestors, and in the process have also wriggled their way upwards to the sunlit floor regions of the Jujubee Ocean as well.
In order to maximize movement potential, their proboscises are curved somewhat at an angle to put them out of the way of the paddles, which are now their main form of movement and control as opposed to simply utilized for controlling. At the same time their flagella has completely deteriorated; now, each individual is anchored to one another through just their sides, and the middle section is like an open slit, although it does not currently appear to have a purpose.
Swimming by way of their paddles has substantially increased their swimming speed, and they can quickly (in terms of their overall size) move in to decaying matter to feed and escape again soon afterward. Each individual will be fed separately, and the colony will slowly rotate their entirety until every member is fed (assuming of course that no predators attempt to feed on them, in which case they will attempt an escape before attempting to return). There is now a defined posterior and anterior, each called a head, which will guide the rest of the colony in action; however, a tako can swim just as adeptly in either direction, and often do so when reversing their current course.
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