Action: try and find a place where there is food.
Thanks for the new round Stealth. 
Action: Given that the Stegopus is slow moving, I will attempt to attack and eat it wherever its shell doesnât cover. In fact, if that shell is a blind spot, Iâll use its shell to hide my attack route. If that fails, then I will go and try to find some soft corals to eat without putting too much effort into the attack.
Yes! New round! And iâm a leech, which is neat, letâs see how we can use it
Action: Go after the scraps for a first meal and then smell around, see if my chemoreceptors can detect if they came from somewhere nearby
thanks for the round stealth! glad the games back on.
Iâll use the Guaranteed Action bonus on mutation 2
Mutation 1: increase size
Mutation 2: evolve my claws to be larger and stronger to crack hard shells
Mutation 3: Develop genders where they are males or females for most of there life but when close to the end of their life they will switch to a hermaphrodite to increase the chance of mating. (ill add a dimorphic color scheme later)
Action: See if I can get lucky, and find a dense are of food to grow some.
Action: Keep swimming away from the jellyfish and use electroreception to find something I could eat
Round 157 - P.1
~52.3 million years since the Atroxian Explosion~
Oliverian Period, Nocturnus Stage
Event: None
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@Agenttine - Points Stored = 3
Mandibulidon serialkilleri (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Plains
Right in front of you is a dead Icthyotelus, lying on the muddy bed of the estuary. You have only to move forward a little, then you are munching on the corpse. Another couple of Mandibulidon, large ones, approach and begin to feed but by now you have had your fill. Over the next few weeks, you grow further into a complete adult, now ready to reproduce. You still live in the estuary. The tidal current is moving inland. A Mandibulidon is resting on the mud to your front. A few Icthyotelus swim above you as a Gempliaori seemingly swims after them.
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 8cm / 12 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 77/77 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
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 itâs 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
@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 0
Pigocauda corallus (NT)
Tropical Shallows
You head down to the seabed and the Stegopus, as sunlight illuminates the clear blue, tropical sea. When you get near, the Stegopus retreats its body into its shell. You try to bite your way through the calcium carbonate shell but it is far too hard. So busy trying to eat the Stegopus are you that you donât notice the approach of an Anazitonta until it has bitten into you. The predator tears right through your body and you are killed. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% (Juvenile) / 2cm / 4 months
Health: Dead
Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
Pigocauda corallus
Latest Mutations: Better eyes with a transparent humor or rather than water = 4, Armour plates around head and jaw = 1, Two-chamber heart = 4
Info: This relatively slow-going proto-fish mainly sticks near to the seafloor because this is where itâs food is located. Unlike its hunting relatives, itâs too slow to be able to hunt enough nutrient-rich food and instead feeds on soft corals. The reason for its lack of speed is the strange scales covering its tail from tip to base; it is composed of heavy but brittle scales that provide no protection but restrict movement of the critical tail. However, it has better stamina because of a two-chambered heart and better eyesight with an actual true eye (composed of a aqueous humor supporting a cornea and lens bending light to the retina) that helps it pick out the soft corals.
Status: NT
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator (eats soft corals)
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (86/10 X 6 =) 51.6NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 25NP / 41NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Bioluminescence. Short-Term Memory.
Perception: Decent binocular vision in front, can use electroreception up to ten metres away, can smell odours up to ten metres away.
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 itâs base. A brittle, heavy type of scale covers the tail from tip to 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 forwards facing eyes - with aqueous humor supporting the cornea and lens directing light to the retina - 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, pumped by a two-chambered heart. 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.
@soundwave - Points Stored = 3
Anazitonta anazitonta (LC)
Temperate Upper Ocean
The current now takes you away from the predatory jellyfish and now all that is around you are some Masticephalus. You are much faster than these miniscule, planktonic creatures and easily chomp on their soft bodies. You eat well here and become a juvenile. No longer is the water viscous for you but you are still planktonic. (6)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 30% (Juvenile) / 0.5mm / 1 day
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: (100% - 30% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: N/A
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 itâs 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
@blackink - Points Stored = 2
Sarcodiscus acrodontus (LC)
Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Plains
The hot, tropical stranded pool yields very little food. Before you can get what little there is, it has been filtered by your sibling Sarcodiscus and the pool is now empty of food. Itâs just you and your siblings. You are now starving. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 0.7mm / 1 day
Health: Starving
Nutrition/Hydration: 0.25/0.5 (40%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Sarcodiscus acrodontus
Latest Mutations: Nostrils = 3, Sexes = 2, Iguanaâs Teeth = 6
Sarcodiscus looks a bit like an Earth-lamprey from the front, with a oral disc wider than the rest of the body. This is ringed with many sharp, leafed-shaped teeth, bizarrely like an iguanas. The oral disc helps Sarcodiscus to grip onto a recently dead animal and rasp flesh off them without the use of a jaw, which it does not have. However, there are no animals regularly large enough to sustain parasitism for this animal and it is no longer a filter-feeder, so it lives off of corpses when it can get them. Otherwise the oral disc and teeth are actually used for prising off algal films from rock, but for this the teeth are a bit of an overkill. In addition, it can also absorb nutrients from corpses through its skin. Compared to their relatives, they only produce about half the amount of young with each spawning.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Very Humid Plains, Tropical Monsoon Plains, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Plains, Tropical Arid Plains, Subtropical Very Humid Plains, Subtropical Monsoon Plains, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Plains, Subtropical Arid Plains, Subtropical Very Arid Plains, Subpolar Warm Oceanic Summer Semi-Arid Plains
Niche: Herbivore, Scavenger
Size: 7cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (8.3 x 7 =) 58NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 26NP / 46NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Nutrient Absorbent.
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, can use electroreception and chemoreception up to ten metres away.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a tapering body with blue pigmentation and a paddle-like caudal fin fused with the long dorsal fin. It also has triangular pectoral ray-fins. The thin skin layer over the body has a line line of electroreceptors along the flank. Mechanisms in the skin and gills can transfer nutrients directly into the body. At the front of the head is an oral disc covered in rings of sharp, leaf-shaped teeth as well as
two sideways facing cup eyes and chemoreceptors.
Internal Features: There are three gill slits each side of the head. The muscles on each side are attached between the body wall and cartilage vertebrae. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with carnivorous digestive juices followed by intestines with herbivorous microfauna, leading to the anus. The brain encased in the head connects to a ring around the mouth. The brain connects to two nerve cords which branch into network of nerves. There is an oil-filled swim bladder in the middle. The hemacoel cavity, an open circulatory system, has red blood containing haemoglobin. It hosts both male and female gonads. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
@Biologicah - Points Stored = 1
Elinopterus yasyarkrnkani (CR)
Tropical Shallows
You are heading for the shelf when you suddenly see a blurry shape heading towards you from the side. The blurry shape materialises into an Anazitonta and it starts to chase you. You keep ahead of itâs snapping jaws just long enough to reach the shelf and squeeze into a tight gap in some rocks. The pursuer cannot fit in and you lose sight of it. You only have a narrow view out of the hole, seeing a Parasiphunculus drift by. (2)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 50% (Juvenile) / 2cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition//Hydration: (55%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
[details=âElinopterus yasyarkrnkaniâ]
Status: CR
Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Nocturnis Stage of the Oliverian)
Habitat: Tropical Shallows
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Predator
Size: 4cm (length)
Nutritional Worth:
Predecessor: Elinopterus gammavianus
Classification: Codowecoiinae (sf), Codowecoiidae (f), Annelida (o), Critteroidea (sc), Bilateria §
Perception: Has blurry binocular vision at the front and blurry vision at the side with no depth perception, can detect chemicals over 10 metres.
Latest Mutations: Muscles = 2, Better Digestive System = 3, Hearing = 3
Info: This species has suffered from a genetic problem - the hydrostatic muscles that ring the body and create movement are weaker. This makes it slower and weaker.
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 and a proboscis. It has a thin skin layer. A sharp, keratin beak forms over the mouth and there are chemoreceptors on the proboscis. It has two pinhole eyes on the front of head and one also on each side. It ends in a fan-tail, above the hyponome at the rear.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes and osmolytes. Weak hydrostatic muscles surround the coelom. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates blue blood containing hemocyanin and anti-freeze proteins. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with digestive juices followed by intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into a network of nerves. An oily swim bladder sits in the middle, not connected to the gut. It hosts both male and female gonads. The coelom in the middle contains a bitter fluid. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Discoverer: Biologicah
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R.157 - P.2
@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 1
Gempliaori secarus (NT) Male
Tropical Very Humid Plains
You hatch out into a tropical lake, with rain relentlessly beating down on the surface. But inside the lake it is calm. You have hatched out onto the shallow edge where algae grows but you hesitate before getting closer. A Mandibulidon is dominating the lakebed by the algae, which is also dotted with colonies of Ciliastoma. In the other direction, the lake seems to stretch endlessly and the floor drops sharply out of sight. You can see a couple of Gempliaori secarus, paddling through the open water, amongst a group of Masticephalus. At your size, the water is viscous around you. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 0.6mm / 1 day
Health: Healthy
Nutrition//Hydration: 0.4/0.5 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None.
[details=âGempliaori secarusâ]
Latest Mutations: Increase Size = 2, Larger, Stronger Claws = 4, Gender = 4
Although smaller than its predecessor, Gempliaori secarus has proportionately larger chela (claws) which are also stronger and sharper. However, these are not quite strong enough to penetrate the armour of its contemporary species and the other species have such undefended skin that Gempliaori pollakra could also cut them. They have an alternative style of reproduction to G. pollakra, with males and females until they are late in life when they become hermaphroditic. This means that they do not breed as much, but that there is a greater mixture of genes.
Status: NT
Habitat: Tropical Rainforest, Tropical Monsoon Forest, Savannah, Hot Steppe, Subtropical Desert, Chaparral, Temperate Forest, Taiga Freshwater & Estuaries
Niche: Herbivore
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (9.6 x 6 =) 58NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 24NP / 52NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Below Freezing Metabolism. Fluid Freeze Prevention. Bitter Taste. Roll Up. Graspers. Can penetrate smooth chitin.
Perception: Sight. Detects chemicals up to tens of metres away. Can perceive blue and green light.
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, calcified exoskeleton. Slightly longer chitinous pincers protrude from around the mouth. 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 pairs of legs built for walking but with a lining like a long paddle down each one. Another pair of legs at the head ends in chela (pincers). 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.[/details]
@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 2
Collodopodus camcordis (NT)
Polar Temperate Upper Ocean
All the Masticephalus have disappeared and the warm, fairly murky water is dominated by Collodopodus and Coliteuthis - some relative giants of the latter swim by, five times your size. It has become too crowded for you, so you leave to find a new home. You follow the trace of food only a short distance until you find a cloud of food floating in a space between two sandbars. You filter in as much as you can and feed well. After a while here, the current changes and you are quickly pulled behind the sandbars by a riptide. But every time the riptide ends, you can go back to feeding on whatever the strong current of the riptide brings in. You live in this area for several months and grow into an adult. You are now ready to reproduce. On the deeper side of the sandbank, you can see a few other Collodopodus. On this side are some miniscule Masticephalus and an arthropodic Rostrocephales digging in the seabed. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 5cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Nutrition//Hydration: 97/97 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Collodopodus camcordis
Status: NT
Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Nocturnis Stage of the Oliverian)
Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean
Distribution: Southern Hemisphere
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (9.7 x 10 =) 97NP
Predecessor: Coliteuthis filocrinis
Classification: Coliteuthisinae (sf), Nimiastomidae (f), Malacoidea (so), Violetamata Š, Bilateria §
Perception: Decent vision with no depth perception either side, can sense chemicals up to ten metres away with accuracy.
Latest Mutations: Heart = 5, Genders = 4, Cephalopod Suckers = 4
Info: The hard shell of this filter-feeder protects it from most attacks, so it is common. It has a dorsal vessel which helps to circulate the blood around to the head. The thread-lined tentacles are tipped with a pad of suckers; these allow it to grip surfaces but since they lack predators and do not need to catch active prey, they have little use. They remain excellent filter-feeders.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed. The female responds to the stimuli of producing eggs by embedding them in her tentacles and tucking the tentacles under her body.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body almost completely covered by a torpedo-shaped, thick calcite shell, with red pigmentation in the thin skin layer. A mouth with small teeth is surrounded by chemoreceptors and four tentacles covered in threads with suckers at the end. There is also a pair of stalks with an eye on each side of the head. A hyponome is also found on the head and can be swivelled in multiple directions independently.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. Three gill slits sit on 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 brain 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 shell contains a phragmocone. The hemacoel cavity, an open circulatory system, has violet blood containing hemerythrin and anti-freeze proteins. The blood is pumped to the head by a dorsal vessel. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Discoverer: PositiveTower
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 0
Parasiphunculus springbloomi (LC)
Tropical Upper Ocean
In the hot, tropical ocean, you continue to be moved by the current, with no way of fighting it at this size. The current takes you away from the flux of food as you journey through the open upper ocean. You cannot sense much food, and when you do sense some, you struggle to get there because the water is very viscous when you are so small. You are now starving. You can see other Parasiphunculus around you but also some Anazitonta. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 0.5mm / 1 day
Health: Starving
Nutrition//Hydration: 0.1/0.4 (40%) / 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 Š, 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. Itâs function is not clear so it doesnât 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)
Tropical Very Humid Plains
Another Mandibulidon is sitting on the estuary floor, and you approach to attack. However, once you get close, it turns out to be much bigger, an adult perhaps, and turns around and grabs you with its long mandibles. You scramble free but the Mandibulidonâs sharp mandibles slice off most of one of your legs. You survive and lose the attacker in the murk but are now severely wounded and bleeding. You were too panicked to get a bearing on your surroundings. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 45% (Juvenile) / 4cm / 5 months
Health: Missing leg, bleeding
Nutrition/Hydration: 3/6.4 (55%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
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 itâs 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 = 1
Anazitonta anazitonta (LC)
Tropical Shallows
In the hot lagoon, you search for prey and see many Masticephalus around. You start chasing one, but your dead eye means you have a hard time keeping track of escaping prey and as you try to follow it, healthier Anazitonta ride in and snap up the invertebrate. Masticephalus and Anazitonta continue to swim through the upper levels while Traxoglossus and Proticthys stick to the seaweed. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 95% (Subadult) / 4.8cm / 11 months
Health: Starving, Blind in one eye
Nutrition//Hydration: 7/37 (20%) / 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 itâs 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
2 Likes
Action: try again to attack a Masticephalus, preferably one another anazitonta has chased, so that it is tired.
Action:Approach the others and hopefully find a mate among them
Action: Find a cave to hide in and sleep
Desperate times require desperate measures
Action: grab my teeth onto the biggest sibling and start parasiting it or remove a chunk of flesh from it to eat
Terribly sorry for the late reply, iâve been busy with finals before spring break
Action: Putting my fate in the hands of the rng, allow the current to take me where it will, hoping (and looking) for a sufficient area of food.
Round 158 - P.1
~52.6 million years since the Atroxian Explosion~
Oliverian Period, Nocturnus Stage
Event: None
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In the arthropod dominated freshwater of Aeaea, isolated from the rest of the world, a new Mandibulidon species has evolved, slightly larger than the previous. It can prey on even the largest of prey species it comes into contact with. And in the northern hemisphereâs temperate seas and oceans, a polychaete worm, Attenbora, has evolved, peacefully filtering from its sandy burrow.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 3
Mandibulidon serialkilleri (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Plains
You pick up the chemical signal of another Mandibulidon through the murk in front of you. In the middle of your journey across the tropical estuary, a Mandibulidon unexpectedly materialises from one side, but it doesnât want to reproduce; it grabs you around the torso with its sharply-lined mandibles, cutting off one of your legs. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 8cm / 12 months
Health: Missing leg, bleeding
Nutrition/Hydration: 50/77 (65%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
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 itâs 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
@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 0
Pigocauda corallus (NT)
Tropical Shallows
You hatch out into a hot sea. You are floating close to the surface. Below, is layer out the seafloor, complete with sponges and soft corals, waving in the tide. However, as you swim down, it is difficult because of the viscosity of water at this size. You can smell some closer soft coral and by following the scent, you see a broken off arm of a coral floating nearby. You eat this. After a few months of life as a miniscule animal, you grow into a juvenile. The water is no longer viscous. Below you remains the varied seabed. You are swimming amongst sparse Masticephalus and Parasiphunculus. In the distance, you can see an Anazitonta, slowly moving in your general direction. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 40% (Juvenile) / 2cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 17/17 (100%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Pigocauda corallus
Latest Mutations: Better eyes with a transparent humor or rather than water = 4, Armour plates around head and jaw = 1, Two-chamber heart = 4
Info: This relatively slow-going proto-fish mainly sticks near to the seafloor because this is where itâs food is located. Unlike its hunting relatives, itâs too slow to be able to hunt enough nutrient-rich food and instead feeds on soft corals. The reason for its lack of speed is the strange scales covering its tail from tip to base; it is composed of heavy but brittle scales that provide no protection but restrict movement of the critical tail. However, it has better stamina because of a two-chambered heart and better eyesight with an actual true eye (composed of a aqueous humor supporting a cornea and lens bending light to the retina) that helps it pick out the soft corals.
Status: NT
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator (eats soft corals)
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (86/10 X 6 =) 51.6NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 25NP / 41NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Bioluminescence. Short-Term Memory.
Perception: Decent binocular vision in front, can use electroreception up to ten metres away, can smell odours up to ten metres away.
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 itâs base. A brittle, heavy type of scale covers the tail from tip to 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 forwards facing eyes - with aqueous humor supporting the cornea and lens directing light to the retina - 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, pumped by a two-chambered heart. 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.
@soundwave - Points Stored = 3
Anazitonta anazitonta (LC)
Temperate Upper Ocean
As you glide along, taken by the cool current, you can eventually see a seabed rise up below. You swim down to meet it, and come to the edge of a cliff. There is a crevice towards the top and you slip in here and rest. When you awake, you find yourself at the top of a continental cliff, looking out over black, dark water⌠There is nothing out there, but you can smell animals a short way above. (3 + 1)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 30% (Juvenile) / 1.5cm / 7 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 11/11 (100%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
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 itâs 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
@blackink - Points Stored = 2
Sarcodiscus acrodontus (LC)
Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Plains
Some of your siblings start dying as the pool of hot, tropical water becomes increasingly hostile, with a harsh sun glaring in from a cloudless sky. Fortunately, you are able to attach yourself to one of the corpses and press your body against it and start collecting nutrients. More corpses litter the pool and less living Sarcodiscus can be found here now. You are no longer starving. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 0.7mm / 1 day
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 0.4/0.5 (80%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Sarcodiscus acrodontus
Latest Mutations: Nostrils = 3, Sexes = 2, Iguanaâs Teeth = 6
Sarcodiscus looks a bit like an Earth-lamprey from the front, with a oral disc wider than the rest of the body. This is ringed with many sharp, leafed-shaped teeth, bizarrely like an iguanas. The oral disc helps Sarcodiscus to grip onto a recently dead animal and rasp flesh off them without the use of a jaw, which it does not have. However, there are no animals regularly large enough to sustain parasitism for this animal and it is no longer a filter-feeder, so it lives off of corpses when it can get them. Otherwise the oral disc and teeth are actually used for prising off algal films from rock, but for this the teeth are a bit of an overkill. In addition, it can also absorb nutrients from corpses through its skin. Compared to their relatives, they only produce about half the amount of young with each spawning.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Very Humid Plains, Tropical Monsoon Plains, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Plains, Tropical Arid Plains, Subtropical Very Humid Plains, Subtropical Monsoon Plains, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Plains, Subtropical Arid Plains, Subtropical Very Arid Plains, Subpolar Warm Oceanic Summer Semi-Arid Plains
Niche: Herbivore, Scavenger
Size: 7cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (8.3 x 7 =) 58NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 26NP / 46NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Nutrient Absorbent.
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, can use electroreception and chemoreception up to ten metres away.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a tapering body with blue pigmentation and a paddle-like caudal fin fused with the long dorsal fin. It also has triangular pectoral ray-fins. The thin skin layer over the body has a line line of electroreceptors along the flank. Mechanisms in the skin and gills can transfer nutrients directly into the body. At the front of the head is an oral disc covered in rings of sharp, leaf-shaped teeth as well as
two sideways facing cup eyes and chemoreceptors.
Internal Features: There are three gill slits each side of the head. The muscles on each side are attached between the body wall and cartilage vertebrae. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with carnivorous digestive juices followed by intestines with herbivorous microfauna, leading to the anus. The brain encased in the head connects to a ring around the mouth. The brain connects to two nerve cords which branch into network of nerves. There is an oil-filled swim bladder in the middle. The hemacoel cavity, an open circulatory system, has red blood containing haemoglobin. It hosts both male and female gonads. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
@Biologicah - Points Stored = 1
Elinopterus yasyarkrnkani (CR)
Tropical Shallows
You head straight out of your hiding place into the hot, tropical, open water, heading for a Paraisiphunculus, when an Anazitonta that was circling your hiding spot, starts chasing you. Fortunately, it begins chasing a slightly easier target and leaves you alone. You are then able to hunt down another Parasiphunculus and impale it with your beak, killing it. You feed on these meal and gain nutrition. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 50% (Juvenile) / 2cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition//Hydration: (95%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
[details=âElinopterus yasyarkrnkaniâ]
Status: CR
Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Nocturnis Stage of the Oliverian)
Habitat: Tropical Shallows
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Predator
Size: 4cm (length)
Nutritional Worth:
Predecessor: Elinopterus gammavianus
Classification: Codowecoiinae (sf), Codowecoiidae (f), Annelida (o), Critteroidea (sc), Bilateria §
Perception: Has blurry binocular vision at the front and blurry vision at the side with no depth perception, can detect chemicals over 10 metres.
Latest Mutations: Muscles = 2, Better Digestive System = 3, Hearing = 3
Info: This species has suffered from a genetic problem - the hydrostatic muscles that ring the body and create movement are weaker. This makes it slower and weaker.
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 and a proboscis. It has a thin skin layer. A sharp, keratin beak forms over the mouth and there are chemoreceptors on the proboscis. It has two pinhole eyes on the front of head and one also on each side. It ends in a fan-tail, above the hyponome at the rear.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes and osmolytes. Weak hydrostatic muscles surround the coelom. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates blue blood containing hemocyanin and anti-freeze proteins. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with digestive juices followed by intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into a network of nerves. An oily swim bladder sits in the middle, not connected to the gut. It hosts both male and female gonads. The coelom in the middle contains a bitter fluid. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Discoverer: Biologicah
1 Like
R.158 - P.2
@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 1
Gempliaori secarus (NT) Male
Tropical Very Humid Plains
You crawl into the bed of algae, through viscous water, but your blue colour against the green of algae is easily visible. The nearest animal to see it is a unfortunately a Mandibulidon, which rushes over across the seafloor. You move to escape, but it catches you with the tip of its long mandibles and then pulls you back towards its mouth. The sharp structures in its mandibles mangle your fan-tail. You are also starving. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 0.6mm / 1 day
Health: Injured fan-tail, starving
Nutrition//Hydration: 0.2/0.5 (35%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None.
[details=âGempliaori secarusâ]
Latest Mutations: Increase Size = 2, Larger, Stronger Claws = 4, Gender = 4
Although smaller than its predecessor, Gempliaori secarus has proportionately larger chela (claws) which are also stronger and sharper. However, these are not quite strong enough to penetrate the armour of its contemporary species and the other species have such undefended skin that Gempliaori pollakra could also cut them. They have an alternative style of reproduction to G. pollakra, with males and females until they are late in life when they become hermaphroditic. This means that they do not breed as much, but that there is a greater mixture of genes.
Status: NT
Habitat: Tropical Rainforest, Tropical Monsoon Forest, Savannah, Hot Steppe, Subtropical Desert, Chaparral, Temperate Forest, Taiga Freshwater & Estuaries
Niche: Herbivore
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (9.6 x 6 =) 58NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 24NP / 52NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Below Freezing Metabolism. Fluid Freeze Prevention. Bitter Taste. Roll Up. Graspers. Can penetrate smooth chitin.
Perception: Sight. Detects chemicals up to tens of metres away. Can perceive blue and green light.
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, calcified exoskeleton. Slightly longer chitinous pincers protrude from around the mouth. 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 pairs of legs built for walking but with a lining like a long paddle down each one. Another pair of legs at the head ends in chela (pincers). 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.[/details]
@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 2
Collodopodus camcordis (NT)
Polar Temperate Upper Ocean
You swim against the tide through the channel between sand banks and approach the other Collodopodus. You get to the nearest one and it is receptive to your advances. You successfully mate, scattering thousands of eggs into the sea. There remains a group of Collodopodus above a sandy seafloor. (3 + 1 = Congratulations, itâs a baby! Choose 4 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 5cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Nutrition//Hydration: 67/97 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Collodopodus camcordis
Status: NT
Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Nocturnis Stage of the Oliverian)
Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean
Distribution: Southern Hemisphere
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (9.7 x 10 =) 97NP
Predecessor: Coliteuthis filocrinis
Classification: Coliteuthisinae (sf), Nimiastomidae (f), Malacoidea (so), Violetamata Š, Bilateria §
Perception: Decent vision with no depth perception either side, can sense chemicals up to ten metres away with accuracy.
Latest Mutations: Heart = 5, Genders = 4, Cephalopod Suckers = 4
Info: The hard shell of this filter-feeder protects it from most attacks, so it is common. It has a dorsal vessel which helps to circulate the blood around to the head. The thread-lined tentacles are tipped with a pad of suckers; these allow it to grip surfaces but since they lack predators and do not need to catch active prey, they have little use. They remain excellent filter-feeders.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed. The female responds to the stimuli of producing eggs by embedding them in her tentacles and tucking the tentacles under her body.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body almost completely covered by a torpedo-shaped, thick calcite shell, with red pigmentation in the thin skin layer. A mouth with small teeth is surrounded by chemoreceptors and four tentacles covered in threads with suckers at the end. There is also a pair of stalks with an eye on each side of the head. A hyponome is also found on the head and can be swivelled in multiple directions independently.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. Three gill slits sit on 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 brain 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 shell contains a phragmocone. The hemacoel cavity, an open circulatory system, has violet blood containing hemerythrin and anti-freeze proteins. The blood is pumped to the head by a dorsal vessel. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Discoverer: PositiveTower
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 0
Parasiphunculus springbloomi (LC)
Tropical Shallows
Floating along aimlessly in the current, you eventually can see the outline of some seafloor below you. There is slightly more food here and you gather above a rock on the floor and filter in passing food. You manage to recover some energy but you are not the only filter-feeder here and Anazitonta are always lurking in the background. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 0.5mm / 1 day
Health: Starving
Nutrition//Hydration: 0.3/0.4 (80%) / 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 Š, 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. Itâs function is not clear so it doesnât 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)
Tropical Very Humid Plains
You limp slowly through the murky estuary, blood spilling out of your wounds and clouding the water behind you. Itâs been a while since you last saw your attacker when suddenly it reappears. With your injuries and weakness, you cannot escape as its mandibles close around you again and slice through, killing you. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 45% (Juvenile) / 4cm / 5 months
Health: Dead
Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
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 itâs 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 = 1
Anazitonta anazitonta (LC)
Tropical Shallows
You are weak, tired and starving and have only one working eye. You have no choice but to simply rest on the seafloor and hope that something happens. It does; another Anazitonta chases a Masticephalus right past you. The fleeing filter-feeder is tiring and an easy target your you simply to snatch out and bite it to death. You manage to read quite enough energy from this meal that you are no longer starving. (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 95% (Subadult) / 4.8cm / 11 months
Health: Starving, Blind in one eye
Nutrition//Hydration: 25/37 (70%) / 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 itâs 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
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Oof, that was close, I will survive among my brethren so this generation can stride forward!
Action: Grab more corpses and drag them away from the sun exposed areas so I can feed on securely and the nutrients float near me
Action: Keep using my strategy of waiting for prey to get tired from other anazitonta, then quickly grab it
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You said I wasnât starving, but my health says I am starving.
Action: Use electroreception to find prey or to find something to eat
well that failed lol thanks for the round anyways stealth.
Action: try to curl around and cut its soft underside
Thanks for the new round Stealth!
Action: Search out more coral to eat. Preferably coral thatâs close by and not close to any predators.