R.250 - P.2
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 1
Haleglossus beveria (LC), Subadult Male
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
NOT YET VOTED
You dig a hole in the ground and wait there, setting out your lure into the water. After a while of waiting in the hot, clear water a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail swims close [Organia negrus]. It drifts closer until you burst out and snatch it in your claws. Your stingers impale it and kill it. You then feed on the flesh. You are full but exhausted. The water is clear and blue. The surface is just above you where waves crash overhead but you sit on the pebbly seabed. Nearby is an animal with a strong, pill bug-like, blue exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Pultrypa reponectus]. An Organia negrus and an animal with a round shell, gastropod foot, a pair of small tentacles around it’s mouth and two eyes on stalks is feeding on algae [Camerotheca acutastomus]. There is hardly any marine snow or phytoplankton floating in the water. A gentle current is flowing along the shore and floating on it is an animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton shaded sandy above and white below that ends in a double fan tail start arriving at the lagoon. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets.[Diplopygus pugilus, Jellyfishmon]. There is a large, craggy rock sticking out of the seabed, where there is some marine snow covered on a rippling current. (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: 85% / 13.6cm / 10 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 27.4/27.4 (100%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: Missing leg
Haleglossus beveria
Latest Mutations: Fix the eggs = 6, Hatchling stage = 3, Calculations = 1, Chemicals = 3, Memory = 3
A predatory ambush hunter that lures prey in with a lure that resembles algae, Haleglossus name lives throughout the tropical ocean, Olympia, Delphi, Aeaea and Tartarus. In the opposite vein to it’s predecessor it produces more eggs than many other species on the planet; it can produce 10,000 eggs each spawning when they gather at mating sites in Early Spring. However, it seems to have lost the part of it’s brain that allows for spatial awareness. It lives alongside another Haleglossus species on Tartarus; it has more fatalities due to being smelt easier by predators but produces more young to counter this.
Status: EN
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, Subpolar Oceanic Warm Temperate Summer Semi-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 Oceanic Cool Temperate Humid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Ambush Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 16cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 201 x 16/100 = 32.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 32.2 x 0.25 = 8.1NP per round (Needs to intake 8.1/0.85 = 9.5NP per round)/ 32.2NP.
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, monocular 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 2. 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: 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 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 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. 10,000 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
Maurcolus repus (LC), Hatchling
_Equator, Deep Ocean
The salty water is very dark and cold. You see nothing. The scent of Masticephalus bathyus [ciliated, jellyfish-domed filter-feeders] reaches your antennae from above in between the scent of marine snow. Moving towards it, you end up crawling through thick, viscous water. Soon, the scent is coming from very close by and your antennae touch one of the Masticephalus. You reach out and try to grab it; your claws make contact and manage to slice right through your prey and it becomes motionless. Then you start to eat, tearing off pieces with your claws and passing them on to your mandibles. After this hunt, you have become exhausted. The water remains the same. You cannot feel the floor around you, only water. You are amid the scent of more Masticephalus bathyus and marine snow. There is also an Allostoma ripleyii [parasitic, beaked worm]. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.1mm / 1 day
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 0.2/0.2 (95%) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Maurcolus repus
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Maurcolus repus evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why it’s lost it’s foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500 - 1500m below sea level)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - rostrum to tail)
Nutritional Need: 186 x 11/100 = 20.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.5 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.7 = 7.3NP per round)/ 20.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. High Pressure Tolerance. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). 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). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from antennae). Smell 2 (odours 2m from spiracles).
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: An exoskeleton of ten segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. A keratin rostrum sticks forwards with two antennae on either side, which house odour receptors and chemoreceptors. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles. 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 on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body, and behind these paddle-like steering arms, and there are four pairs of 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. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered 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. In the middle of the body is a hemacoel with blood through which an anti-freeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide) flows and this is connected to a dorsal vessel.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 500 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking. Can swim by paddling legs and fan tail as well as using hyponome.
@Deathwake - Points Stored = 4
Neoicthyotelus ithaca, Juvenile (NT)
Ithaca Estuary, Moderate Oceanic Humid Barrens, Late Spring
The warm, brackish water is teeming with phytoplankton and marine snow - judging by your sense of smell - as you swim slowly through it, filtering as much food as you can into your mouth. You swim by oscillating your entire body and use your pectoral fins to guide your direction. You detect plenty of light from above. Your filtering goes unhindered, even by the waves that periodically shuffle the surface just above you. Your electrical senses and smell indicate several other Neoicthyotelus ithaca swimming around you. After a while of swimming around here you have had your fill and then decide to rest, hovering in the water. Your rest is undisturbed lo enough to become fully rested. Afterwards, the water remains quite the same; including the concentrations of phytoplankton and marine snow. You can smell saltwater ahead. (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: 55% / 3.9cm / 1 year and 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 100% / 4.8/4.8 (100%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Neoicthyotelus ithaca
Latest Mutations: Closed Circulatory System, Odour Receptors
Unlike all it’s living relatives and some of its ancestors, the long tail has no spikes. It probably lost them as there was a lack of predators in their range; they live only in temperate estuaries, where the brackish water is just the right balance to suit their rather limited salt intake abilities. Overall, this is a relatively small area to live, but it is the only animal that lives here. The pectoral fins have become smaller, and more streamlined like a ray-finned fish; they are held against the body and composed of a cartilage limb branching off the vertebrae and three supports covered in skin. Muscles in the limb make it move, so this animal is faster than its ancestors.
Status: NT
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Size: 7cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (125NP/10) x 7/10 = 8.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (8.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 4.8NP /8.8 x 0.9 = 7.9NP
Abilities: Moderate UV Resistance. Osmoregulation (Brackish and Fr eshwater Tolerance), Circulation, Excretion.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (Senses electrical signals up to 1 body length away), Smell 2 (Senses odours from 5m away), Directional Light Sensing in front.
Stats: Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration), Coordination 1. Digestion 1 (Can Break Down Multicellular Matter, 10% less), Immunity (Immunity Physical Barrier), Support 1.5, Intelligence 1. Walk Speed 0.7, Swim Speed 0.3, Stamina 3.5, Strength 1.5. Filtration 0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When feeling pain; swim away. When hungry; filter the water. When ready to reproduce, sense for electrical signals of other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: The tapering body is covered in iridiphore pigments which give it a metallic blue sheen over the soft, permeable skin. It has a mouth, odour receptors, and a pair of forward-facing cup eyes on the face. Along the length of the body are electroreceptors and there are also two pectoral ray-fins.
Internal Features: Three gill slits line just behind the head. A circuit of closed blood vessels transports red blood around the body. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain leads to a nerve cord with nerves running off like rungs on a ladder. The nerve cord is supported by a cartilage vertebrae. In the centre of the body is an oily liver and below this are the testes and ova.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: None.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Anguilliforme (+1 Stamina). Crawling. Buoyancy Control.
@TeaKing - Points Stored = 1
Allonops allonops, Juvenile (NT)
Kommos, Subpolar Moderate Oceanic
Humid Barrens, Early Summer
You swim towards the rocky banks and rest up against them. Your rest is long and undisturbed, allowing you to recover a lot of energy so that you are no longer exhausted. The water is warm, clear and gentle. The pebbly riverbed is not far below the surface. Some algae is growing on the pebbles with a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail grazing on it [Organia cosmopolitanus]. On either side, you can see the rocky banks where some bivalves with a jellyfish-like dome and cirri sticking out are filtering and the river winds out of view in front and behind you [Cilistoma caecus]. Appearing round a bend in the river is an animal with a strong, pill bug-like, blue exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Pultrypa reponectus]. The sky above is blue, sunny and clear. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 55% / 6.6cm / 1 year and 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 60% / 4.2/8.3 (50%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Allonops allonops
Latest Mutations: Gills, Filter-Feeding
This species is a predator native to the waterways of Kommos. Like it’s relatives it has odour receptors inside it’s spiracles. It has a calcified exoskeleton and can curl up into a ball. This species has gills on it’s leg.
Status: NT
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.
@doomlightning - Points Stored = 1
Medusodera pennicoronus, Adult (LC)
Coastal Shallows off Ithaca, Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
The water feels cool and a gentle current is carrying you through quite murky water over towards the a rock with a blurry vision of an animal with tentacles lined with feather-like pinnules in front of a jellyfish-like dome and a body lined with cillia attached to the sediment nearby [Medusodera pennicoronus]. There are also amorphous animals covered in pores on the rock [Tubormorphii primus]. You drift above the shingle seabed while you feel waves lapping overhead. As you travel, you are gathering in the marine snow and phytoplankton in the current, getting a lot of food in the well-stocked waters, particularly of phytoplankton. You get to the other Medusodera where you attach yourself using your holdfast in the shingle sediment. You also successfully reproduce with the Medusodera next to you, scattering eggs into the water. Now you are exhausted. Here, you also can see a wall of even murkier water with a brackish scent. You can smell a Lepidoderes immortalii somewhere above and behind you [predatory proto-fish, BlackInk]. Behind you but fainter is also the scent of an Organia acrodon [predatory fish]. (6 + 1 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 3 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution. 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% / 2.5cm / 2 years
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 30% / 3.7/3.7 (100%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: 1 Evolutionary Point
Medusodera pennicoronus
Latest Mutations: Holdfast, Theca, Pinnules
This species appears a bit like a crinoid. It has a crown of arms covered in feather-like pinnules which are lined with tube feet, which makes it a good filter-feeder. A hard theca protects the head and the body has an endoskeleton of ossicles. It retains the swimming adaptations like the jellyfish-bell below the theca and the lines of cilia on membranes along the body. This is despite having a root-like holdfast, which it can use to attach itself to sediment. It lives throughout the upper 500m of the northern hemisphere temperate Uteenessa ocean.
Status: LC
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 2.5cm (from cirri to end)
Nutritional Need: 148 x 2.5/100 = 3.7NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 3.7 x 0.25 = 0.9NP per round (Needs to intake 0.7/0.6 = 1.5NP per round)/ 3.7 x 0.75 = 2.8NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Digestion. Subzero Metabolism.
Perception: Chemoreception 2 (detects chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 1 (see blurrily on ventral side, monocular vision). Light Sensing (dorsal side).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Filtration 2.5. Immunity 2. Respiration 3.5 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 25% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Stability 2. Toughness 3. Viscosity 1. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Wait for food. 2. Food > Filter with arms and tube feet. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The cylindrical body with a jelly-filled dome has yellow skin. There is an endoskeleton of ossicles and they are arranged in plates in a up around the front called a theca. At the front are arms lined with feather-like pinnules lined with tube feet, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. It has teeth in it’s mouth. There are six pairs of gill slits. Along the body are four membranes with lines of cilia on them. On the ventral side of the body is a pinhole eye. At the bottom is a root-like holdfast.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. A water vascular system carries water from the tube feet to the main canals that radiate from the central canal around the mouth, and also from the madroporite. The body has a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the gills. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. It has a gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. From the ganglia in head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off with a nearby notochord.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Slightly Active (10NP). Paddles with cilia.
