Net Mucusworm

Net Mucusworm
Creator	Aldank Memestein
Information
Status	Extant
Common Name(s)	Net Mucusworm
Zones	4
Roles	Base-Consumer
Classification
Genus	Mucosa
Species	Mucosa bitentaculum
Evolution
Date	December 25th, 2018
Ancestor	Unknown
Descendants	Case Mucusworm Mucosa tuntea

A 2cm long multicellular worm-like organism with two tentacle-like appendages near the mouth. M. bitenticulatus is a filter feeder living in Zone 9. It filter feeds by creating a mucousy net between its appendages and catching particulate matter and planktons (such as T. pilosa), after a while it pulls the net into its mouth and ingest it and everything it caught. Their anus is just below the mouth, allowing the to burrow most of their body and still excrete waste directly into the water. All individuals produce both gametes. It also reproduces sexually by releasing sperm into the water, the sperm will be caught in the mucus nets of other individuals, and they will take them sperm into a special tubule connected to the digestive tract that leads to a chamber where eggs are stored. Once fertilized the eggs move down a tubule that opens into an atrium where nutrient rich fluids, produced by the parent, are released. The young stay in their parent until they develop the paired appendages and they resemble the adult but smaller. Once they have reach this stage they leave the atrium through a tubule that opens into the anus where they emerge from the parent and swim away to find a place to burrow and live.