It was isolated from the digestive tract of some marine invertebrates, mainly from the peanut worm, collected from the Northeast Pacific.

Creolimax is a member of the Ichthyosporea, which is the earliest branching holozoan lineage.

It can be easily grown in the lab through cycles of asexual reproduction.

[3][4] Characterising those two stages can help to elucidate the development of specific cell types in multicellular animals.

Moreover, it has been shown that Creolimax uses a complex gene regulation system, including long non-coding RNAs and exon skipping alternative splicing, which were normally associated with multicellular animals.