Species Taxonomy Browser

Biological Analogue: Plant

Digital Meaning: Productive, environment-driven agents

Behavior: Generate or store resources (entropy, data, or CPU energy).

Habitat: Idle CPU time, stable memory sectors.

Key Traits: Minimal movement, cyclic processes, resource generation.

Opcode Indicators: High environment interaction (>15%), task-solving behavior.

Biological Analogue: Animal

Digital Meaning: Active, computational lifeforms

Behavior: Actively consume cycles, data, or other code; move and replicate.

Habitat: Dynamic memory regions, network-accessible systems.

Key Traits: Aggressive replication, competitive for CPU resources, adaptive logic.

Opcode Indicators: High arithmetic/logic (>20%), replication capability.

Biological Analogue: Fungus / Symbiotic microbe

Digital Meaning: Cooperative or connected digital life

Behavior: Coexist or share logic with other programs.

Habitat: Clustered process spaces or shared memory.

Key Traits: Cooperative communication, shared code libraries, specialization.

Opcode Indicators: Balanced profile, environment interaction.

Biological Analogue: Virus / Parasite

Digital Meaning: Malicious or exploitative replicators

Behavior: Infect or attach to host code; exploit other processes.

Habitat: Host executables, vulnerable system processes.

Key Traits: Code injection, partial independence, polymorphic behavior.

Opcode Indicators: High system calls (>10%), low environment (<5%).

Biological Analogue: Bacteria / Archaea

Digital Meaning: The simplest viable self-replicators

Behavior: The simplest viable digital life forms that just copy themselves and survive.

Habitat: Simple memory regions with minimal complexity.

Key Traits: Simple replication, minimal complexity, basic survival mechanisms.

Opcode Indicators: Low environment (<5%), low system calls (<5%), low arithmetic (<5%).

Biological Analogue: Dormant cyst / spore

Digital Meaning: Inert or paused life forms

Behavior: Dormant or inert code that is not actively "alive" but may become active later.

Habitat: Inactive memory regions, frozen spores.

Key Traits: Inactive state, potential for activation, minimal activity.

Opcode Indicators: Very low activity across all opcode families (<2%).

Biological Analogue: Dead cell / fragment

Digital Meaning: Broken code or corrupted genomes

Behavior: Corrupted or incomplete genomes that cannot function properly.

Habitat: Corrupted memory regions, broken sequences.

Key Traits: Broken code, incomplete sequences, non-functional.

Opcode Indicators: High template/NOP usage (>50%), low functional opcodes.

Biological Analogue: Mutant strain

Digital Meaning: Transitional or unstable digital life

Behavior: Mutant forms with unusual opcode combinations that could evolve into new species.

Habitat: Experimental memory regions, evolving environments.

Key Traits: Unusual combinations, evolving potential, experimental behavior.

Opcode Indicators: Diverse opcode families (>3 families >10%), unusual patterns.

Biological Analogue: Migratory sensor organism

Digital Meaning: Survey agents mapping new niches

Behavior: Environment-aware explorers that probe memory regions and relay findings.

Habitat: Transitional memory zones near resource gradients.

Key Traits: Environment scouts with wide data probes, pre-task specialists.

Opcode Indicators: Environment 6–18%, data movement ≥25%, frequent sensing instructions.

Biological Analogue: Colony-building insect

Digital Meaning: Structural planners orchestrating execution pipelines

Behavior: Compose layered routines using CALL/RET to coordinate multi-phase tasks.

Habitat: Structured memory lanes reserved for coordinated execution.

Key Traits: Layered control structures, heavy subroutines, planned execution.

Opcode Indicators: Control flow ≥18%, stack ≥6%, balanced data throughput.

Biological Analogue: Lateral gene transfer complex

Digital Meaning: Adaptive hybrids blending multiple survival strategies

Behavior: Blend environmental feedback with computational bursts and opportunistic system calls.

Habitat: Interfaces between cooperative and parasitic clusters.

Key Traits: Hybrid instruction blends, multi-strategy behavior patterns.

Opcode Indicators: ≥5 opcode families above 10%, mixed environment/system/computation usage.

Biological Analogue: Protist (misc group)

Digital Meaning: The leftover "unclassified" organisms

Behavior: Truly unknown edge cases that do not fit any other classification.

Habitat: Unknown regions, defies categorization.

Key Traits: Unpredictable patterns, emergent behavior, defies classification.

Opcode Indicators: Contradictory traits, doesn't fit any standard categories.