Murutentus porphura

Murutentus porphura
Creator	Sneal
Information
Status	Extant
Zones	25, 28
Roles	Parasite
Classification
Genus	Murutentus
Species	Murutentus porphura
Evolution
Date	March 8th, 2019
Ancestor	Unknown
Descendants	Murutentus composterus

In Zone 28, the Polyph Coralius cytra sits around decomposing dead material while occasionally reproducing. A parasite has taken advantage of the free nutrients and swims around the decomposer stealing food that its host softened itself. It uses 3 flagella to swim faster then its competition (i.e. other individuals of M. porphura), and reproduces roughly every 25-30 minutes. Occasionally, when its host creates a fragment of itself, a crowd of cells will swim toward it and wait for it to grow. During this time, more then 95% of the cells die, and only a few hardy individuals survive. When its host dies, mostly by accidental starving from M. porphura, the cells will swim away in a great crowd and find new hosts. They are typically 4-5μm.

M. porphura is covered with a cell membrane due to a lack of evolutionary pressure to have a cell wall. It has a nucleus and uses a mitochondrion-analogous organelle to gain food, except it originates from the organism itself rather then from an endosymbiotic event. This mitochondrion came into existence when the cells decided to focus the energy-creation in one place to allow for materials to be more easily found and thus energy created more quickly. This idea was gradually improved upon, such as surrounding the location with a cell wall inside the cell to prevent materials from leaving the location, until they had evolved a mitochondrion. Each cell has only a single mitochondrion in there disposal, though theoretically more mitochondria could evolve in other species.