R.161 - P.2
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 0
Parasiphunculus springbloomi (LC)
Tropical Shallows
NOT YET VOTED
Above a tropical seafloor, populated with sponges and soft corals, you float in the viscous, sunny water. Another Parasiphunculus hatchling has found a good patch of floating food so you charge in and take over the space, stealing the food from the other after a bit of jostling. You manage to survive here for a few months, continue to grow larger, although you are still categorised as a hatchling right now. You continue to filter above the seafloor with other Parasiphunculus, while an Anazitonta patrols at the edge of your sight. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 20% (Hatchling) / 0.9mm / 2 months
Health: Starving
Nutrition//Hydration: 8/8 (100% - 20% left for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Parasiphunculus springbloomi
Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Nocturnis Stage of the Oliverian)
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 4.5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (8.8 x 2.3 =) 20NP
Predecessor: Tetrabitia caereleus
Classification: Pictolexipotusinae (sf), Pictolexipotusidae (f), Tunicaphora (o), Violetamata ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Can sense chemicals from 10s of metres away, has acute chemical sensing, and has blurry eyesight in one direction with no depth perception.
Latest Mutations: Bigger, Tubes for Food = 2, Better Eyesight = 5, Memory = 6
Info: For some unknown reason, a long, tube-like structure extends down from the main body. It’s function is not clear so it doesn’t seem to do anything positive for the animal. On the other hand, it can see clearly on one side of the body, and at least detect light with the other. It is also able to remember long-term events, and remember dangerous species and prosperous locations, as examples.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body but with an umbrella-shaped top, composed of four lobes that can fold up, with blue pigmentation and four fleshy membranes down the sides, each lined with thousands of cillia. It has a thin skin layer. A mouth with chemoreceptors, small tentacles also with chemoreceptors and a single eye are on the head, with an eyespot on the other side. A long, tube-like structure extends below the body.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. Six gill slits sit each side of head. Muscles on each side are attached to the body wall. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with digestive juices followed by intestines leading to the anus. A slightly bigger brain, with a memory lobe, encased in the head connects to one nerve cords which branches into a network of nerves, with a notochord running alongside. It hosts both male and female gonads. The hemacoel cavity, open circulatory system has violet blood containing hemerythrin and anti-freeze proteins. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Discoverer: SpringBloom
@Serialkiller - Points Stored = 1
Mandibulidon serialkilleri (LC)
Polar Moderate Oceanic Humid Plains, Early Spring
The approaching large Gempliaori is a threat and so you try to flee out of its warpath. You swim upwards but it is hard going because you are so small and the water therefore viscous. Fortunately, you just manage to scramble high enough to escape the Gempliaori but you are clear of the gravel so the stream’s flow picks you up. You pass over the pebble-covered riverbed but cannot swim back against the current. As you travel quickly downstream through the cool, clear water, you see that you are flowing alongside planktonic Icthyotelus young and a large Gempliaori is paddling through the water - is this food? (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 0.8mm / 0 days
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 4/8 (50%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Mandibulidon serialkilleri
Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Nocturnis Stage of the Oliverian)
Habitat: Tropical Rainforest, Tropical Monsoon Forest, Savannah, Hot Steppe, Subtropical Desert, Chaparral, Temperate Forest, Taiga Estuaries
Distribution: Tartarus Brackish and Freshwater
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (9.6 x 8 =) 77NP
Predecessor: Ocuteras segmipano
Classification: Mandibulidontinae (sf), Ocuterasidae (f), Mandibulata (so), Critteroidea (sc), Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, blurry front vision with depth perception. Can perceive blue and green light.
Latest Mutations: Improve Bite Force = 6, Increase Size = 3, Legs = 4
Info: Large, tough pincers around the mouth can break through even the calcified exoskeleton of its cousin, Gempliaori and sharp barbs like teeth on the inside of the pincers shred up food into more manageable pieces. It hunts this other species but can also be found feeding on vegetation. Compared to Gempliaori it’s four pairs of legs are rather simple, but they still help it walk around on surfaces and even briefly on land.
_Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body with blue pigmentation, a proboscis and protected by a jointed, tough chitin shield. Slightly longer, touch chitinous pincers protrude from around the mouth, with sharp barbs. There are chemoreceptors on the proboscis. It also has two eyes on the front of the head and one compound eye on each side. Two receptor types means it has dichromatic colour vision. Spiracles sit behind the head. It has four pair of simple, chitinous legs. There is a chitinous fan-tail, above a hyponome, at the rear.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates blue blood containing hemocyanin and anti-freeze proteins - the spiracles link to the major blood vessels. Also, a network of protonephridia expels waste through pores. Muscles on each side of the body are attached to the body wall. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a muscular stomach with digestive juices followed by coiled intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into a network of nerves. There is a swim bladder in the middle, not connected to the gut. It hosts both male and female gonads. The body contains a coelom cavity, filled with a bitter fluid.
Discoverer: Serialkiller
@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 2
Anazitonta anazitonta (LC)
Tropical Shallows
Before you even leave your resting spot, another Anazitonta approaches you without you having to expend energy to find one. Luckily, it also wants to reproduce and you do so, scattering your eggs into the lagoon. The lagoon is quite populous with yet more Anazitonta bustling around, chasing after the Parasiphunculus. Also in the lagoon are several Proticthys, sticking close to the seaweeds, where snail-like Traxoglossus are also feeding. It’s a miracle that you managed to survive with only one eye and reproduce but having done so you are now starving - it has taken its toll. (5 + 1 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 3 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 5cm / 12 months
Health: Blind in one eye, starving
Nutrition/Hydration: 25/38 (10%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Anazitonta anazitonta
Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Nocturnis Stage of the Oliverian)
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Temperate Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean, Temperate Upper Ocean
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Predator
Size: 5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (76/10 X 3.5 =) 26.6NP
Predecessor: Leptia validus
Classification: Sanicthyopsinae (sf), Skelechelusidae (f), Eoicthyes (o), Chordata (sc), Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry binocular vision in front, can use electroreception up to ten metres away, can smell odours up to ten metres away.
Latest Mutations: Memory = 5, Better Electroreception = 6, Teeth Able to Rip Chunks = 5
Info: This is a predator with a sharp bite, with many blade-like teeth built to slice through chunks of flesh. This makes it easier to hunt larger animals. A much more sensitive electroreception ability means electric signals from other animals can be detected further away and when they are creating less of a signal, such as moving slowly. Electricity generated from the electric organ can make the surroundings even clearer. Along with this, short-term memory records experiences, allowing the animal to remember things like where food is and where it is safe.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: Streamlined fish-shape body with black pigmentation; it has oval pectoral ray-fins, a caudal fin beneath the tail and two spines on it’s base. Cycloid scales cover the thin skin layer, a line of electroreceptors on the flank and blue autogenic photophores dot the body. A mouth containing lots of razor-shaped teeth, olfactory receptors and upwards facing pinhole eyes make up the face.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits sit each side of head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin. Muscles line either side of the body between the body wall and the cartilage membrane. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has stomach a with digestive juices followed by intestines leading to the anus. A slightly bigger brain, with a memory lobe, encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into network of nerves. A swim bladder lies in the centre of the body, near to the electric organ. It hosts male and female gonads. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Discoverer: Soundwave
