Life

This page lists fundamental informations about Nispe's lifeforms, such as the fundamental structures, the genealogy and classification.

### **General anatomy and classification**

Life on the planet can be divided currently in 5 major kingdoms: Archaea, Protozoa (these two consisting of countless microscopic species often akin to Earth), Chromista (Algaes, various species of multicellular plant lifeforms within the sea, along with with microalgaes), Vegetalia (like lettucegrasses and descendants) and Animalia. currently the project focalizes on the development of Animals, Plants and multicellular Chromists.

#### **Chromista**

*Main page: **Chromista***

at the start of the chodician, new simple multicellular lineages of chromistids developed independently from each other, but based on the colonial microalgaes that lived on the pillar lettuce's pillars. one form of them, the mosses, have found great success both on land and water biomes, even serving an indispensable symbiosis with land plants.

there are still numerous species of microscopic chromistids, found mainly on water and nearby surfaces, spread all over the planet, playing a vital role both on the evolutionary history of nispe and on the biosphere as a whole.

#### **Vegetalia**

*Main page: **Vegetalia***

All archaical plants, which derive from the *Lettuce* lineage, have four major characteristics: they all live on water, possess a central body from which stem the roots (used for gaining mineral nutrients), grow leaves which act photosynthesys and expel waste throught a mineralized growth. most of the surviving forms are rather primitive and even underperforming, compared to their more evolved descendants and even to chromistids.

True plant-like forms appeared only during the middle of the Chodician, and are only formally recognized as such due to their few differences from their ancestors. the most primitive plant species inhabit the low-depths sea floor of the north, all grouped in the *benoisials* genre, while the others have adapted to exclusively live on the surface, thought aided in their survival by subterranean mycomistids. the most notable difference from their ancestors consist on the use of the roots to anchor onto the ground and to absorb minerals, as well as the reduced (or repurposed) waste expulsion. however, many of these species possess both unique and common characteristics (including re-emergent ones) between them, which makes classification unclear.

all plants have a common reproduction system, which can still vary between species: their gametes are spread with the aid of spores, which either contain one sex or another's genetic code. when two spores of different sexes come in contact, they get fertilized and the plant will start to develop. asexual methods like gemmation and clonation can also be used as an alternative method by many species.

#### **Animalia**

while the kingdom is mostly composed by microscopic or planktonic lifeforms, there are however many multicellular species, which can be divided into two major phylums categorized by their symmetry.

**Radiata:** the animals that develop in a radial symmetry are more often than not simple, but widespread and very fertile. the phylum further subdivided in five classes: ***Photosynthesizers*,** highly derived creatures which found a way to sustain themselves by a particular symbiosis with chromistids, of which the Sea Balls are one of the known members: ***Nectonia***, motile creatures provided of a central body from which spur tentacles and a shell from each top respectively (Shellyfishes being one of the best examples): ***Retiaria***, sessile lifeforms which eat by a retractable net-like structure (Rock Nettles are an example, but certain species evolved the ability to create structures similiar to corals): ***Xenothoracica***, weird creatures that are characterized by at least one sex being sessile and filter feeding, provided with a reproductory organ that resembles a beak, of which Garlic Trashies are the basal archetype: ***Xenicthya***, an even weirder class characterized by an evolutionary convergence with the Bilaterans, free swimming, of which the Xenish sets up the basic body plan. these last two clades are genetically derived from the Xeno Onion, an archaic species which presents characteristic in between the two sexes which would then give rise each to proper members of the respective classes. Xeno Onions are conventionally classified as Xenothoracicans because of ancestry reasons, but this collocation is often debatable.

**Bilatera:** the animals that develop in a bilateral symmetry. unlike radiatans, they are richer in species count and adaptations, as well as evolutionary prowess, but are also scarcer in biomass. this phylum presents four major classes: ***Bicephalia***, a rather weird clade that is rather based on it's ancestry (Amphisbenas being the true exponents of the body plan), with a very wide array of forms which usually share just that between each others: ***Platemnita***, a fairly simple and uncommon clade characterized by a flat body and two distinct orifices, with the mouth dotated of a single, retractable teeth, with species adapted for various, easy to hide in biomes (such as Carpet Needles); ***Scutocephala***, closely related to Platemnites, possessing a segmented body covered by a hard shell and a beak to eat, comprising numerous species ranging from the extremely succesful Pesky Sgrabs to the eccentric Stilt Sgrabs: ***Chordates***, a super-clade encompassing three other sub clades, which all share genetic ancestry: *Archeochordata*, comprised of archaical forms widespread during the benician, and which went completely extinct during the first half of the Orchidian; *Caudalia,* representing species sporting a cartilaginous fin, as well as exclusively marine, free-swimming tendencies; *Rostrilia,* which groups all terrestrial chordates as well as their direct ancestry. while the last three clades may be very similiar between each other, as confirmed by covergent embryology on each one's typical larval stages, they still retain many historical and bio-anatomical differences that deserved them an easier and less centralized classification.

It should be noted that some animals possess rather rudimentary breathing systems, usually involving directly absorbing in the oxygen needed along with the water from the skin (or from pores in it). despite the obvious inefficience, it is still kept by many genres at the cost of energy expense, mainly to support the dermis with the costant chemical damage caused by continued breathing. this development also causes many species to have a shorter lifespan than usual.

#### **Chromista:**

* Capsuliforma (Deep Moss and descendants)
	+ Mycelids (Crawling Myceliums)
* Mycofungines
	+ Land Mycofungynes (Cardiofungynes)
* Various Microorganisms

#### **Vegetalia:**

* Floating Lettuces
	+ Digging Lettuces (Drill Lettuces etc.)
		- Bud Lettuces
			* Benoisials (Lettucegrasses etc.)
				+ Succulentids
					- Seasonal Succulentids (Pine Succugrass and descendants)
				+ Phytospinas
	+ Lake Lettuces (Brackish Lettuces etc.)

#### **Animalia:**

**Radiata**

* Original Photosynthesizers (Sea Balls)
	+ Anchoring Photosynthesizers (Bins and descendants)
		- Motile Photosynthesizers (Pots and descendants)
			* Ground Synthesizers
			* Carnivorous Synthesizers
* Common Nectonians (Free Swimming Shellyfishes)
	+ Trumplers
		- Dumplers
			* Tube Dumplers (Flatfin Dumpler and descendants)
	+ Shell 'o Wars
* Soft Nettles (Sessile Retiarians)
	+ Arrownets
	+ Coral Nettles
		- Colonial (spongiform) Fans
			* Chemosynthetic Fans
* Xenions
	+ True Xenothoracicans (Garlic Trashies etc.)
	+ Xenicthyans
		- Moloid Xenicthyans (Stonolas etc.)
			* Rorolas (plus descendants)
				+ Sunlight Rorolas (plus descendants)
				+ Lightfin Rorolas (Coastal Rolas and descendants)
		- Novischians
			* Rovischians

**Bilatera**

* True Bicephalians (including Knuckers)
	+ Nematocephalians, or Slithering Bicephalians
		- Pitomorphans
	+ Transitional Monocephalians (Meduses etc.)
		- Monocephalians (Carrys etc.)
			* Lopsided Monocephalians (Charibdos etc.)
	+ Thoracephalians (Idera etc.)
		- Palmicephalians (Uwebam etc.)
* Archaeoplatemnitans (Wasp Worms etc.)
	+ Swimming Platemnitans (Carpet Needles etc.)
* Archaeoscutocephalans (Scallop Crabs)
	+ Neoscutocephalans (Shallow Crabs and Skate Crabs plus descendants)
		- Ambush Neoscutocephalans (Grabbo Crabs)
		- Swimming Crabs (Copperhead Crab etc.)
		- Chitocephalans (Pesky Sgrabs and descendants, Trap Crabs)
			* Halluciscutans (Stilt Sgrabs etc.)
				+ Nematoscutans (Groundbore Skubs etc.)
				+ Echinocephalans (Feathered Skubs)
			* River Chitocephalans (Deadman Sgrab and descendants)
				+ Arrowgnats
				+ Milli Grubs
					- Podocephalans (Slit Grubs)
* Archaeochordata (Fishworms)
	+ Parrotworms (Parrotworm and descendants)
		- Dinoworms (Dinworms and Chelworms)
		- Raptorworms (Raptworms and, formally, Billorms)
		- Finworms (including Dartworms)
			* Quickworms
			* Trollorms (plus descendants)
		- Pickworms
			* Bottorms (Including Mudorms)
				+ Ornorms
				+ Podorms (including Rudorms)
					- Archaical Keramouths
						* Cetorms
						* Neorostorms (Croom etc.)
						* Neocetids (Ubaam etc.)
						* Shouldered Keramouths (Bophorms and descendants)
						* Clawed Keramouths (Toporms and Wiggorgs)
							+ Softmouths (Duurabs)
							+ Molleostids (Qulobs etc.)
							+ Flapfins
							+ Centaur Keramouths (Nightcrawlers, Riphounds etc.)
								- Ovalischia or Leaping Legs
								- Quadratischia or Walking Legs
* Various Microorganisms