Slowly drifting through the waters of Subnautica is one of the most spectacular species on this planet, the reefback. This slow moving giant is a passive plankton feeder with a thick chitinous shell which overtime becomes home to a community of coral and flora. These organisms don’t really help the reefback, but they don’t really hurt the reefback either, though they add some drag of course. This is what would be considered a commensal symbiosis. In earth’s ocean’s many large marine organisms become home to smaller lifeforms like algae, barnacles, and isopods, which take advantage of the movements of their host like a turtle or whale to take them to areas with more nutrients and make them more successful than their relatives living on some rock somewhere.
Footage from Subnautica and Subnautica: Below Zero
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