Pinthanatos polus
Fungera polus is a synaplot descended from F. arctuata. It decomposes polyph corpses and uses a very sugary cytoplasm to protect itself, like its ancestor. The main body of the organism are connected mycelial cells that produce zoospores in meltwater. They posses chitinous cell walls. The zoospores are motile and will seek out decaying polyphs then transition into the next life stage, growing mycelia.
The main adaptation is the concentration of sugar in F. polus’ cytoplasm. When conditions become too cold F. polus goes into a stasis, flooding most of the cell with sugar and releasing zoospores en masse before the main body and zoospore go into this state and wait out the low temperatures, this only happens at -12°c and below. The dormancy they go into is induced by stopping all metabolic, reproductive, or otherwise non-essential life processes and desiccating the cell with Trehalose. They continue to produce fuscimalase in low amounts.