User:Synaptic seaslugs
The colorful, hermaphroditic mollusks of the Opisthobranchia clade - like all gastropods and mollusks in general - are classically regarded as lacking nervous myelination. However, a paraphyletic group of marine slugs have been recently found to exhibit substantial levels of myelin production, on par with primate cortex. Compressability analysis of the signal patterns in captive specimens indicates that the slugs sample patterns from an up-to septuply entangled state space, uniquely defined by the asynchronous circuitry and fluorescent peptide markers of each present species. A sophisticated charged hydrostat enables synaptic interface among the sea slugs present.
Perhaps even more amazingly , the gastropods exhibit vast morphological divergence from any known species. The synaptic tentacles of adjacent slugs appear to permit stable adhesion, horizontal gene and epigene transfer, and agglomeration of biomass of participating slugs. Captive colonies have been observed taking protective forms with delocalized extensions resembling Cephalopoda, and even selectively concentrating trace ions via synaptic firing, in order to generate basal structures including shells and darts, and even confounding approximations of cnidarian, echinoderm, and annelid structures. According to a former researcher (name and affiliation withheld), larger colonies were observed replicating vertebrate, fungal, and unrecognized proteins without any input genes. One colony was even observed to exhibit fully formed ambhibious ears, a feature completely unknown to gastropods which like mollusks in general, are typically completely deaf.
The colony in question was also observed forming spontaneous pressure differentials at a membrane interface, producing complex sounds. The anonymous researcher provided several recorded examples. The sounds are wide ranging, incorporating eerie traces of music into an aquatic wash of strange patterns. The patterns were found to correspond to the slug neuron measurements, but the meaning is otherwise unknown.
Update: When asked for additional information, our contact could not be reached. We attempted to contact the affiliated institution (name now withheld from this public report due to apparent judicial mandate). We have received formal replies from the institution via email, but their staff is providing no further information regarding this case. Curiously, we were able to reach several phone numbers associated with the organization, but all of them yielded nothing but the eerie music supposedly created by the singing slugs.