Colony creature
A colony creature or colony species is a lifeform composed of multiple component organisms that functioned together.

Coral, a marine organism found on Earth, was a type of colonial lifeform. ()

The "giant tribbles" that occupied the  for a short period of time were eventually found to be colonies of tribbles that clung together, but which could be separated by neoethylene. ()

Pandronians, such as Ari bn Bem and Shari yn Yem, were colony creatures whose constituent parts were capable of independent function. (; )

In 2364, the microbrain became a colony of single s which organized like a computer, and was more powerful after an energy surge in its reproductive cycle, ()

The Tuscadian pyrosome was a colony species consisting of thousands of interconnected zooids. ()

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Lifeform classifications