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Published: 2014-09-15 18:53:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 2325; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 0
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Volcanoids are a prolific phylum of sea life found all over Ilion ’s depths, including the darkside hydrothermal vents. They are characterized by their mode of embryonic development in which the embryo folds twice: once to make a tube, as in all plicozoans , and again to form an O-ring. What used to be the mouth and anus of the wormlike ancestor are now linked together and no longer function as such. Volcanoids procure food and excrete waste through extensions of the gut that poke through the body wall.Phylogeny of Volcanoids
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It looks like it has to cover and surround its meal, and rely upon that one location for all further food.
Perhaps it lives around black smokers, and feeds on the chemosynthesizing bacteria (and their excrement)? Or if the second wrap is temporary, it can flap along to dead material on the seafloor, cover it, and digest the dead creature at its leisure. By surrounding the corpse, it can suffocate anything there of oxygen and light.
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The ones that plant themselve somewhere and stay in place are usually filter feeders, "breathing" in their food and absorbing it through the mouths on the inside of the cavity. Those that take larger prey do so by luring it in. It can't actually wrap itself around anything because it is a complete ring. The diagram shows a cutaway so you can see inside but in reality it is closed.
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this has got to be one of the most outlandishly alien species I have ever seen anyone imagine! fantastic!
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This is really good, but i was reading the diagram before i had the whole thing in view, so when i saw 'gut' i immidiatly assumed excrment would come out of those mouths, collected and ejected upward. Not sure if relieved or disapointed of learning otherwise.
By the way I've been meaning to ask, are you aware of the Snouters?
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No, I am not. What are they?
What you're describing with the waste collecting on the inside and venting upward is actually how sponges eat. Most of these guys do the opposite, ejecting their waste from the outside pores, allowing them to use the inner cavity to digest food. Gut is a common shorthand for gastrointestinal tract.
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Do Rhinogradentians ring a bell? it's the same thing. If you follow the Furaha blog, there has been a post or two about the project.
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Ah, i'm a bit surprised you don't. They're made up animals, extensively described as if real, and i'm sure you'll find it interesting. I own a book about them, the contents of which can be found on this page www.sivatherium.narod.ru/libra…
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I don't know how I missed it but I haven't heard of this project. I'm reading it now.
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