Microseaserpent

Microseaserpent
Creator	HorrortheTerror
Information
Status	Extant
Common Name(s)	Microseaserpent, Microseadragon
Zones	13
Roles	Decomposer, Predator
Classification
Genus	Pyrrhocytos
Species	Pyrrhocytos drakon
Evolution
Date	July 7th, 2021
Ancestor	Winged Microdragon
Descendants	No results

Dimensions: 75μm(length), 25μm(height)

After dispersing to the coasts of Booreiland, cysts of Pyrrhocytos oviptera were moved into the ocean where temporary populations would emerge. They continued feeding on detritus and particulate matter, adapting to the new conditions and ecology, leading to the evolution of Pyrrhocytos drakon.

P. drakon is able to tolerate the higher osmolarity through osmoconformity. They grow larger to accommodate new food sources available in the ocean. Unlike its previous food sources, these do not cause obvious chemical change in their environment; as a result, their chemoreceptive eye-like organelles now have a wider surface area to accommodate a greater variety of receptors for detecting things such as organic residues.

P. drakon retains it’s ancestors’ ability to encyst in unfavorable conditions, though it does so much less frequently. This mainly occurs in sharp temperature and salinity fluxes, as well as high concentration of toxic decomposition byproducts around decaying organics that they are attracted to. P. drakon reproduces through mitosis.