Phungii piscicida

Phungii piscicida
Creator	Sneal
Information
Status	Extant
Zones	23
Roles	Parasite
Classification
Genus	Phungii
Species	Phungii piscicida
Evolution
Date	February 5th, 2019
Ancestor	Phungii chytridus
Descendants	Phungii zoopoion

While Oslontus maculatus did help the populations of Cynopsis pyrrhosynopsm not crash down immediately, they were starting to hit a critical low level from its parasite, Phungii chytridus. This also caused its parasite to start dieing off too, which incentivized the fungus to start, maybe stop killing its host so much? These eventually became its own species, Phungii piscicida.

Phungii piscicida's core concept is the same: grow on the skin, produce mycellia, absorb nutrients of cells, and produce zoospores. The details, however, have been altered to prevent near-immediate host death. Most simply, it has a lower metabolism and takes nutrients more slowly, which allows C. pyrrhosynopsm to replenish the lost nutrients. This makes sure that C. pyrrhosynopsm doesn't die from the fungus. This makes the groups of sporangia smaller (10μm) and more spread out due to less daily energy, but this is balanced by the higher likelihood that a host will be found.

These adaptations allow it to be more easily taken out by O. maculatus, however, due to less and slower growth. So P. piscicida has evolved a dangerous chemical to combat this. When part of it is damaged, it will spray the chemical all over the place, which tastes nasty and high enough concentrations can kill O. maculatus. Some definitely get onto some of its hosts cells, but anything close enough is just absorbed back with its network. Anything too far can and indeed will harm its host, so it rarely does it without a vast network to catch anything that falls.