这是《Time Quintet》系列小说里的设定,首次出现于 1973 年 1 月 1 日发布的第二部《A Wind in the Door》。现实中没有这种微生物。
你可以用外国搜索引擎搜索“farandolae”来看相关的解说。
In Madeleine L'Engle's A Wind in the Door, the Farandolae are fictional organelles of mitochondria, which have a similar endosymbiotic relationship with mitochondria, as mitochondria have with eukaryotic cells. Over the course of the novel, characters physically journey inside a mitochondrion and encounter the farandolae as sentient creatures that do circular "dances" around their "trees of origin" that drain the elder fara of energy.
当时,这小说得到了相当高的评价。但你从我国网络上出现的这类问题就可以看出它创造的模因造成的不利影响。和描写将人体等比例缩小的书较真是没有意思的。