Paramone

==Appearance==
The Paramone is a Celloid with an orange curved body that is shaped like a maw. There are light blue blue patterns on its body as well as some small purple spikes. At the edges of its curved funnel-like oral disk is covered in pale orange tentacles that usually droop a little outwards but can be extended. The inside of the maw has a deep orange color. The Endemic Life's pedal disk is usually attached to a piece of coral but can also swim and move if necessary.
==Habitat and Ecology==
The aquatic Endemic Life can be found in coral reefs attached on the top of branching corals, but is also often found on the back of Reef Koyuxerus. The Celloid also shares the habitat range with the Carapaceon, inhabiting the Frantic Bay and Submerged Boneyard. A Paramone is a sessile organism that filters small organisms like plankton out of the water, but with its orange color inside the maw it is capable to lure small Mollusks and Carapaceons into its grasp, closing off the orifice with its tentacles and slowly digesting them.
The tentacles contain cnidocystes that unload cnidae with paralyzing venom when touched. It's an Interactable as when its body is touched it will extend and thrash around its tendrils shortly after in order to hit the toucher. This can be used by hunters by luring monsters close to it after interacting with the Paramone. Reef Koyuxerus often uses this ability by holding a Paramone in its claws and put the paralysis to use. Even so the Celloid has predators that like to feed on it, like Lopylki, but if closeby, the Carapaceon will try to protect it.
Paramones can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Budding is the usual reproduction method, a bud forms at the pedal disk that at a certain size detaches and swims away searching for a spot to settle on. It seems the Celloid is capable to determine if it is placed on a Reef Koyuxerus as its sexual reproduction of releasing gametes into the water mostly occurs when on the back of the Carapaceon. The amount released is also smaller than the one of species with the same methodology as there are usually several individuals on the back, increasing the success rate well.
==Related Creatures==
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==Notes==
*Preyed on by: Lopylki
*Feeds on: Small organisms like plankton, small Mollusks and Carapaceons
*Paramone cannot flee from approaching threats so it's relatively easy to capture.
**When a Reef Koyuxerus is closeby when capturing several of these Endemic Life, it will get provoked.
*When interacted with, the Celloid thrashes around with its tentacles after a second of reaction time.
*Paramones can often be found on the back of Reef Koyuxerus.
==Obtainable Rewards and Materials==
*Rewards for capture: 25 Research Points
*Materials left behind: None
==Trivia==
*The appearance is based on the venus flytrap sea anemone.