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Zooplantae

The category the RDA field guides invented for Pandoran organisms that refuse to sit on either side of the plant-animal boundary: they photosynthesise, and in canon's own phrasing they possess "the rudiments of a nervous system" together with contractile fibrils that work as muscle does. The helicoradian, the anemonoid, the cat-ear shrub, the Panopyra tank and the airborne atokirina' are all filed here. It is an admission of defeat rather than a taxon: canon never says whether the grade is retained ancestral condition or later convergence, and the Pandoran floral tree comes out differently depending on which it is.