elastaas
Elastaas is a fictitious genus of gelatinous marine cnidarians created for speculative biology and world-building. Noted for an unusually elastic body plan, elastaas can stretch their tunics and tentacles far beyond the length of their resting form, a trait that influences their behavior, feeding, and ecology in the imagined ecosystems where they occur.
Morphology and physiology. Individual elastaas resemble translucent, umbrella-shaped medusae with long, threadlike tentacles and trailing glucan-rich
Taxonomy and species. In the fictional taxonomy, elastaas are placed in a dedicated family Elastiidae within
Habitat and distribution. Elastaas are depicted as cosmopolitan in temperate to polar open-ocean waters, commonly found
Ecology and significance. In the fiction, elastaas serve as mid-trophic predators that capture plankton and small
Notes. As a fictional organism, elastaas are described here for storytelling and world-building purposes and do