Scintillatis hyalos

Scintillatis hyalos
Creator	Sneal
Information
Status	Extant
Zones	1, 9, 25, 26, 27, 32
Roles	Decomposer
Classification
Genus	Scintillatis
Species	Scintillatis hyalos
Evolution
Date	February 9th, 2019
Ancestor	Shockcomb
Descendants	Glass Sprouts

As decomposers in Zone 4 increased, competition continued to build and fall, which will eventually reach a stable point. It has not yet, however, and thus it is is pressured to find ways to leave or outcompete. Fungera piezolatti ended up entering Zone 9, which has only Fungera primus, which allowed F. piezolatti, with its superior defense and ability to collaborate, to flourish. This caused competition to rise very quickly, but instead of competing, they decided to collaborate more. This eventually formed the species Fungera hyalos.

Fungera hyalos lives its life decomposing dead material with its flagella, which grow according to the closest food instead of in a hexagonal pattern. The zoospores that appear grow more mycellia instead of just existing, causing a large lattice of zoospores to form. They still have electricity, but they use it to communicate with other grids by creating electric fields. Other networks can sense this using derived storage organelles adapted as electroreceptors, which read and interpret the electric fields.

If two networks meet, they will connect mycellia with eachother and exchange genetic code using Conjugation, and will grow together, exchanging nutrients and energy with eachother. This eventually can be seen with a large, transparent, typically flat pane that's flimsy and easily broken. If it's broken, any zoospores that are disconnected from all others will go leave and form its own comb. Any that's still connected will continue to grow with it. It individually grows typically between 5-10 μm., and combs can theoretically grow forever. Due to ease of breakings, however, it normally doesn't get any larger then a few millimeters.