R.232 - P.2
@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 3
Inolarynx maculatus (CR), Juvenile
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Early Summer
As a shoal you head towards the scent of an Anazitonta. It is a strong scent and quickly becoming stronger until you can just about see it swimming along. You can detect the other members of the shoal following and though some start to head away they are drawn back quickly to the group. The target is getting closer and stops to nibble on some debris in the sand. One of your shoalmates takes the chance to charge forward and smash into it, plunging itâs fangs in. Blood clouds the water and the Anazitonta stops moving. You move in for an easy meal and begin feeding. More time passes and you grow into an adult, ready to reproduce. However, over this time, most of your shoal has been picked off by relatively new Organia acrodon âfish,â which have become more common instead of Inolarynx. You have barely seen any of your own kind recently. The dark, cool winter transformed into bright, warm summer. Through the quite murky seawater, you see the sandy seafloor, interspersed with rock. A small valley slices through the seafloor and in one direction is a cliff, including a wide opening. In the other direction, the seafloor and valley carry off into the gloom. You can see an Atkinsonia punctatus [conical-shelled cephalopod with spotted flaps of skin around itâs foot] moving towards the valley, where some Rhipiella [fan-shaped soft coral] are filtering on the edge. There is an Anazitonta hovering around these soft corals. The faint scent of another Inolarynx reaches you from the cliff opening but in between you and there is an Anazitonta astatheana. (6)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 8cm / 2 years
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 20% / 15/15 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Inolarynx maculatus
This is a predatory proto-fish that lives in the Temperate Ocean of the Southern Hemisphere. Itâs black, has bioluminescent spots all over it and sharp, venomous fangs. It lives in loose shoals. Inolarynx has pharyngeal muscles around the mouth and throat that allow it to create a buccal pump that draws water past the gills. It also sucks in organisms from the water. It has a much softer memory than its predecessor.
Latest Mutations: Pharyngeal Muscles = 5, Improve brain for packs = 2, Longer digestive tract = 3
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm
Nutritional Need: 187 x 8/100 = 15NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 15 x 0.25 = 3.8NP per round (Needs to intake 3.8/0.9 = 4.2NP per round)/ 15 x 0.9 = 13.5NP
Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Bioluminsecence. Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. âMigmachordatix Toxinâ. Only Works Underwater; gills. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Passive Electroreception. Permeable Skin. Ram Ventilation. Startle. Stationary Respiration. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (Sees clearly up to 5m away from the front). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (detects odour traces up to 1m away from the front).
Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2. Immunity 2. Filtration 1 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2. Sharpness 2. Stamina 3. Strength 2. Suction 0.5. Support 1. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 2.5. Toughness 1 (2 in spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = carangiform. When tired = rest. Sense ??? right in front = bite with mouth. Mating hormones = move around. ??? w/ mating hormones = reproduce.
External Features: The skin of the tapering, fairly stream-lined body is covered in cycloid scales with black melanin pigmentation and blue autogenic photophores. The head has a mouth with razor sharp teeth and venomous fangs. There are also a pair of forward-face camera eyes and olfactory receptors. It has a pair of pectoral fins and a line of electroreceptors along the flank. At the end of the body is a dicypheral caudal fin as a semicircle below the tail and spines at its base.
Internal Features: Behind the head are three gill slits. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw and has pharyngeal muscles around it. It has a closed circulatory system. There are muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. It has a swim bladder, gonads, a Migmachordatix neurotoxin gland, an electric organ and a nephridium. Ganglia in the head connect to a single dorsal nerve cord, protected by a cartilage vertebrae.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Carangiform (+1 Swim Speed).
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 2
Haleglossus mephitus (LC), Subadult Male
Olympia, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Late Spring
In your pit, you wait for something to drift towards you through the quite murky, tropically hot freshwater, attracted by your waiting lure. One of the Hydroambula [hyperarthropod] starts coming closer and approaches your lure. When it gets close enough, you rush out and grab it in your claws. The Hydroambula tries to escape but you cut into it with your claws, severing vitals and killing it. You then eat your catch. A couple months later, you have grown into an adult, ready to reproduce. Now, you are exhausted from moulting but are also being driven by instinct to make it to the breeding colony. Through the quite murky water you can see the muddy riverbed and the closest bank. The river carries off downriver until the gloom prevents you from seeing anymore. Your memory says that the colony is this way. In the other direction, is a small waterfall. You notice some Hydroambula [ten-legged hyperarthropod] grazing on some algae on the riverbed below and an Allonops [Teaking, ten-legged hyperarthropod]. Murenoides [simplistic, transparent eel-like animal] are swimming around the surface. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 16cm / 1 year
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 32.5/32.5 (100% - 30% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Haleglossus mephitus
Latest Mutations: 6 = Salt Tolerance, 1 = Add hatchling stage, 3 = Bigger, 2 = Chemicals that leak out of our lures and attract prey, 5 = More complex brain.
This hyperarthropod that has become an excellent ambush hunter in fresh and brackish water has now spread out to the tropical ocean in addition, where it lies in wait in a pit dug into the seafloor, similar to itâs continental brethren. It has become more widespread than its cousins as it has also managed to move into Olympia, Delphi and Aeaea in addition to its ancestral home of Tartarus. It uses an algae-resembling lure to trick herbivores to come close then attacks with its stinger or claws. This species has a part of the brain devoted to spatial awareness, allowing it to judge these distances and its position in the world but a scent gland on the lure makes its scent easily detectable for quite a distance. In late spring, adults gather in mating sites to reproduce and the eggs are kept in the femaleâs pouch. However, this particular only produces around 100 eggs each spawning, rather than 1,000 putting it at a numbers disadvantage.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Tropical Ocean & Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 16cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 203 x 16/100 = 32.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 32.5 x 0.25 = 8.1NP per round (Needs to intake 8.1/0.85 = 9.5NP per round)/ 32.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater, Brackish and High Salinity). Roll Up. Solid Excretion. Strong Scent.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3.5 (100% Meat, Digests 85%). Evolution 2. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1.2. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Spatial Awareness. Memory 1. 1. Hungry > Dig a hole and wait in it for food with lure exposed. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity & Late Spring & At Mating Site (+1 Evolution) > Reproduce.
External Features: A highly jointed, calcified exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. Around the mouth is a pair of strong, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. A unique lure made of mostly muscle can be retracted into the base of the mouth - it has a green lure covered in tiny hooks at the end and a scent gland. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these stalks on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with strong claws are held at the front of the body with a pair of appendages bearing sharp stingers at the end. There are three pairs of paddle-lined legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid and another gland secretes a harmless fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and coiled intestines. Ganglia in the head, possessing memory and spatial awareness neurons, connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. Along the nerve chord is an axochord.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 100 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Males and Females. Female: Has a pouch under the body where the eggs are kept. (Changes: Pouch = +2NP. 205 x size = NP)
Locomotion: Slightly Active (10NP). Usually moves by undulating fan tail while paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.
@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 0
Dorsopelta positivus, Juvenile Male (U)
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Early Summer
Crawling over patches of algae in the fairly murky, very warm water under the summer sun, is a Gryphorhinus [hyperarthropod]. You zero in on it, your choice of prey, when before you get moving the other Dorsopelta hurries forwards and captures the Gryphorhinus in itâs mandibles, crushing it and carrying it off into the gloom. You have missed that opportunity. You are still in the quite murky, warm water of the river and retain your injuries. In front of you, the river ends in a lake but upriver it continues. Several Compcylindricus [bivalves] are sitting on the riverbed, filtering, while Masticephalus recentibus [simple animals with jelly-fish like domes, cirri around the mouth and cilia on membranes] swim through the river. The algae at the bottom of the river is now being grazed by an Organia [fish]. From upriver you can smell the scent of a Pultrypa [ten-legged, quick-clawed hyperarthropod]. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 9.5cm / 8 months
Health: Deep puncture wound
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 0.3/0.4 (75%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Dorsopelta positivus
Latest Mutations: Bigger = 4, More body segments = 3, more compound eyes = 1, a long, frontal appendage which allows me to ouch and move stuff = 6
This species is also a freshwater predator but has powerful mandibles capable of penetrating the calcium carbonate shells of bivalves (and molluscs if there were any in freshwater). The half-exoskeleton bearing animal also has a greater number of smaller lobes comprising itâs two big ones, meaning extra manoeuvrability. Perhaps due to itâs murky habitats, it has got much smaller eyes and lost itâs compound eyes completely, making itâs eyesight worse although it now has a pair of long antennae with touch receptors on. Another change is the increase in size.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 27cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 196 x 27/100 = 52.9NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 52.9 x 0.25 = 13NP per round (Needs to intake 13/0.7 = 18.6NP per round)/ 52.9 x 0.9 = 47.6NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoregulation (Freshwater). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. âXenoarthropodusinâ Toxin: Neurotoxin that kills nerves in minutes.
Perception: Sight 1 (sees blurrily at the front and sides, blue and green perception, front binocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth). Touch 1.
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Pierce Strength 4. Reach 1. Respiration 2 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, need 10% less). Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 0.5. Swim Speed 3. Swim Stability 1. Toughness 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The top half of the cylindrical body is covered by half an exoskeleton, leaving the lower half unprotected. This skin contains blue melanin pigments. A pair of long antennae have touch receptors. Around the mouth is a pair of very tough, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. It has two tiny eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) and the same model of eyes on stalks either side of the head. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Along the body on each side are a series of many lobes combined into one. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. The mandibles host âXenoarthropodusinâ neurotoxin glands. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Undulates its lobes and fan tail and propels itself with the hyponome
@Deathwake - Points Stored = 2
Anazitonta astatheana, Juvenile (LC)
Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Late Autumn
NOT YET VOTED
Under the darkness of the cool saltwater, you detect the scent of another Anazitonta astatheana coming closer. Then it is close enough to detect with your electroreception. It is looking to reproduce also and you successfully reproduce, scattering eggs into the dark ocean. It remains dark and cool so you can barely see anything. The Atkinsonia punctatus [benthic cephalopod with skirt of skin] is still making itâs way across the seafloor can still smell a slight scent of Inolarynx and an Anazitonta anazitonta somewhere below. There is also the slight scent of another Anazitonta astatheana nearby. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 16cm / 1 year 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 60% / 22/27 (80% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Anazitonta astatheana
Latest Mutations: Bigger
This relatively large species of Anazitonta is a hunter of smaller members of the genus; the ancestral Anazitonta anazitonta, as well as Pigocauda corallus. But luckily for these species it only inhabits the temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a constantly faster metabolism, so it is faster and grows faster - at the cost of expending more energy. It also does not age as quicker, so has a longer lifespan.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 16cm (length)
Nutritional Need: 169 x 16/100 = 27NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 27 x 0.25 = 6.8NP per round (Needs to intake 6.8/0.7 = 9.7NP per round)/ 27NP
Abilities: Bioluminescence. Intolerant of More Than High Pressure. Fatal âMigmachordatixâ Toxin. Freshwater Osmoregulation.
Perception: Sight 1 (Blurry Images). Electroreception 2 (Passive Electroreception). Olfaction 1 (1m from mouth).
Stats: Bite Strength 1. Buoyancy 1. Circulation 1. Coordination 2. Digestion 2. Filtration 0.5. Flexibility 1. Immunity 1 (Barrier Immunity). Liquid Excretion 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, Only Works Underwater). Sharpness 1. Solid Excretion 1. Stamina 2. Strength 1.5. Support 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Swim Speed 2. Toughness 0.5. UV Resistance 3. Walk Speed 0.7. Warming 1.
Intelligence / Behaviour:
External Features: The body is quite streamlined, the skin of which is covered in cycloid scales and contains black pigments and blue photophores. A pair of olfactory receptors is located by the mouth at the front, which contains teeth. A pair of pinhole eyes are placed on top of the head. Three pairs of gill slits and electroreceptors line the flanks. There is a pair of pectoral fins and a round caudal fin below the tail with a pair of spines at the base.
Internal Features: The gonads are close to the body wall. Blood vessels circulate around the body. The head contains a cartilage jaw. The body is supported by a muscular system. The organs in the inner body are the swim bladder, stomach, intestines, nephridium and a toxin gland. Some ganglion are connected to a nerve cord, which is protected by the cartilage vertebrae.
Reproduction: Sexual. 1,000 eggs per spawning. External Fertilisation.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphrodites.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Carangiform Swimming.
@TeaKing - Points Stored = 0
Allonops allonops, Juvenile (LC)
Olympia, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Late Autumn
Out of the stream of water you clamber, getting yourself into some of the dry rocks. Itâs very hot, the sun beating down on you as you cross over towards the larger body of water and also very arid - you can feel yourself quickly becoming too hot as well as dehydrated. Furthermore, your oxygen is running out. Even the hot rocks burn your feet. Thankfully, you make it to the refreshing and relatively cool water though it is still hot and quickly plunge in, taking in much needed oxygen and surviving the dangerous trek through the hostile land. Through the quite murky water you can see the muddy riverbed and the closest bank. At your size, the water is thick and the current is carrying you downriver. The river carries off downriver until the gloom prevents you from seeing anymore. In the other direction, is a small waterfall. You are starving. You notice as you drift along some Hydroambula [ten-legged hyperarthropod] grazing on some algae on the riverbed below. Up further ahead, you can see a Haleglossus [Zenzone, hyperarthropod] swimming through the river. More Murenoides [simplistic, transparent eel-like animal] are swimming around the surface. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.2mm / 0 days
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 0.1/0.2 (15%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Allonops allonops
Latest Mutations: Gills, Filter-Feeding
This species is a predator native to the waterways of Kommos. Like itâs relatives it has odour receptors inside itâs spiracles. It has a calcified exoskeleton and can curl up into a ball. This species has gills on itâs leg.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Subpolar Oceanic Warm Temperate Summer Semi-Arid Barrens, Subpolar Continental Warm Temperate Arid Barrens, Subpolar Continental Warm Temperate Very Arid Barrens, Polar Oceanic Cool Temperate Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get
Size: 12cm (length - head to end)
Nutritional Need: 194 x 8/100 = 15NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 15 x 0.25 = 3.8NP per round (Needs to intake 3.8/0.8 = 4.8NP per round)/ 15 x 0.9 = NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Brackish and Freshwater). Roll Up. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Plants, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 2 (Ram Ventilation, Stationary Respiration, 10% off). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 2.1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim Away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: A highly jointed, calcified exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) on either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body and there are four pairs of paddle-lined legs with gills followed by forked, paddle-lined swimmerets. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Spiracles lead into water-filled tubes. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and coiled intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and females.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with legs, swimmerets and fan tail, boosts with hyponome.
