Whipping Cell

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Whipping Cell
(Contorquere verberis)
Artwork of Whipping Cell
Species is extinct.
21/?, unknown cause
Creator OpDDay2001 Other
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Aculeuia
Pungifilia
Pungifiliales
Pungifiliaceae
Contorquere
Contorquere verberis
Week/Generation 18/119
Habitat Huggs Island Coast
Size Microscopic
Primary Mobility Unknown
Support Unknown
Diet Cytovore
Respiration Unknown
Thermoregulation Ectotherm
Reproduction Fission, Asexual, Budding
Descendant of Ancestor of


The whipping cell replaced it's ancestor within the Huggs Island Coast. The whipping cell moves by twisting itself in clockwise or counter-clockwise directions. It retains it's long sting-clusters, but do to it's style of movement the bulk of the cells tend to concentrate near the "center" of the creature. Whipping cells hunt by using their thing string strands, and twisting motion to whip and puncture the cell membrane/wall of another microbe. This gives the whipping cell easy access to the contents of the other cell. When a string has to many cells, the end of the cell will whip off eventually becoming another creature. Due to the nature of this form of reproduction, whipping cells can sometimes form within still living cells. It still can reproduce via fission as well.

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)
  • Sting Cells (family Pungifiliaceae)