Donut of Worms
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- Anchored Life
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- Raions
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PDA entry
- An organism (tentatively Raion donut) that resembles an Earthly anemone or ceriantherian, but is actually a sponge occupied by a colony of predatory worms.
- 1. Raion
- An organism defined as a sponge occupied by a colony of cloned predatory worms.
- 2. Hunting strategy
- The worms live in the sponge's jelly (called the mesohyl), protruding from its anus (the osculum) to sting passing prey with sticky cells and draw them into the sponge.
- 3. Puzzling genetics
- Spectrogenetic analysis indicates the host sponge and the resident worms contain partial copies of each others' genomes. This is a biological impossibility on Earth, and suggests that genetic inheritance functions differently on this world.
- Assessment: minor sting hazard - do not insert fingers. Important scientific discovery.
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