Myxobolus shekel

==Summary==
Myxobolus shekel are the smallest animals and invertabrates ever found. They're a part of the Myxozoans taxonomic group, which are parasites of aquatic, cold-blooded vertabrates and invertabrates. However, Myxozoans are most commonly found in wild and cultured freshwater bony fishes and marine fishes.Myxozoans - Encyclopedia of Arkansas. (2020, February 10). Myxozoans. Encyclopedia of Arkansas. https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/myxozoans-12636/
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: 
Name: Myxobolus Shekel
Origin: The Real World
Gender: Unknown (Animals are commonly known to have sexual dimorphism, but a mircoorganism like Myxobolus shekel could also not have a gender)
Age: Varies
Classification: Microscopic Parasite, Myxozoan, Cindarian, Animal
Powers and Abilities: Disease Manipulation, Duplication (Via it's spores), Durability Negation, Small Size (Type 3), Statistics Reduction and Status Effect Inducement (Via symptoms like other Myxobolus, albeit unknown for Myxobolus shekel in particular)
Attack Potency: Below Average Human level (Is 8.5 micrometers in size.Smallest invertebrate | Guinness World Records. (n.d.). Smallest Invertebrate. Guinness World Records. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/760020-smallest-invertebrate
 Can create spores that can penetrate the gut walls of their hosts), can ignore durability with their infections (Can cause fatality rates in fish)
Speed: Below Average Human
Lifting Strength: Below Average Human
Striking Strength: Below Average Human level
Durability: Below Average Human level
Stamina: Unknown (Makes spores as a mean of reproduction and infection and is implied to survive within the organs of their hosts to an unknown extent) 
Range: Below Standard Melee Range
Standard Equipment: It's spores
Intelligence: Instinctive (Should be comparable to microbes at it's size, which are programed to do associative learning, decision-making, problem-solving, etc despite their lack of a nervous system.Dha, N. (2021, November 12). How intelligent are microbes?. News. https://www.news-medical.net/life-sciences/How-Intelligent-are-Microbes.aspx
 Even if the animal did have a nervous system (which is unlikely at it's size), it's likely that it would be very simplisticZullo, L. and Hochner, B. (2011, January). A new perspective on the organization of an Invertebrate brain. Communicative & integrative biology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3073264/
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Weaknesses: Needs hosts for survival as a parasite, though it hasn't been recorded to survive without one on it's own.Parasites: Types, Symptoms, Treatment & Prevention (n.d.). Parasites. Cleveland Clinic. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24911-parasites
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*Life Cycle:
**Annelid Infection: Known Myxozoan life cycles have spores extrude their polar filaments and sporoplasm. The latter penetrates and infects the gut walls of either annelids oligochaete or polychaete. The parasite then develops into a multinucleate trophozoite (an amoeboid plasmodium, a big cytoplasmic mass that has multiple nuclei) that grows larger over time and develops attached to and within the coelom of the worm's internal organs. Then, they produce spores to be transmitted into the next host.
**Fish Infection: The spores outside the water as usually shown will infect fish whether by contact, ingestion, or any method (as Myxobolus shekel hasn't been stated to have a particular infection method). From this point on, the host will gradually show a wide assortment of symptoms that eventually lead to the host's death.
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==Notable Matchups==
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==References==
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