Cnidarianoid

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A Cnidarianoid or Medusoid is the typoid classification of creatures exhibiting characteristics similar to Terran jellyfish, anemones, or corals.

Description (Specifications)

A cnidarianoid is distinguished by a number of characteristics:

  • Cnidarianoids typically reside within aquatic environments.
  • They are typically complex species capable of metamorphosis, or extreme changes of body plan.
  • Their bodies largely consist of a non-living jelly-like substance.
  • They are either slow swimmers or sessile.
  • Some of them reproduce asexually, or have only one sex.
  • They are sometime related to Amoeboids.

Specific Species Examples

  1. Jellyfish
  2. Luugiir, floating gas-sacs common across the Imperium.
  3. Micro-ecology of Quicoral
  4. Siliwishisee
  5. Sheol
    1. Sheolian Messenger
    2. Sheolian Squid Mother
  6. Zirduluush

See also

Selected Typoids

References & Contributors (Sources)

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