thanks for the round stealth.
Action: eat any thing I can find until im an adult then try to find others of my kind even if I have to leave the lake.
Sensing the nearby pollakra may be a threat, I move towards the masticephalus, hoping my superior speed will allow me to catch and eat a few of them or their own algae
Action: Find a well hidden spot and swim down to it and hide and wait for prey to pass by
Thanks for the new round Stealth. 
Action: Hide for a bit as best I can while the predators eat the more obvious prey. Then when they either leave or arenât looking Iâll try and grab some of the pieces of soft coral around that I can eat.
Action: Try and find an empty spot on one of these sponges, and feed, keeping a lookout for any predators.
Round 163 - P.1
~54.3 million years since the Atroxian Explosion~
Oliverian Period, Nocturnus Stage
Event: 4 - None
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The supervolcano violently explodes out the weakest point, sending out a shockwave of noise for miles around. The magma chamber collapses and lava flows out over a relatively small area. A plume of ash reaches into the sky and hot rocks shower the surrounding landscape. Ash then settles up to three feet over several thousand kilometres of southern Tartarus. Everywhere on the planetâs surface experiences a cold snap because of the sulfur aerosols it produces and there is a drop in temperature. Fortunately, most species are shielded from the effects by water. Eventually, the volcano stops erupting, the temperature returns to normal and life gradually goes back to how it was.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 3
Mandibulidon serialkilleri (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Plains
5 + 1 = NOT YET VOTED
Leaving the half-eaten, rotting Proticthys corpse, you have a look for a mate around the muddy, hot pool in which you are situated. There are still no other Mandibulidon in this isolated section. The only other life here is a few Masticephalus peacefully filtering through the water. The surface, which is being pelted with rain and outside the pool is easily accessible for you. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 8cm / 12 months
Health: Missing leg
Nutrition/Hydration: 37/77 (45%) / 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 straight out of the seaweed bed in the very warm, clear sea towards the beach, where debris from the storm includes soft corals. You munch on the soft coral arms until you notice an Anazitonta heading in this direction from deeper water. You are forced to flee as fast as you can and luckily make it back to the seaweed before it perceives you. About two months pass of you surviving. You come across another reef, where you see several soft corals growing alongside amorphous sponges. Entaops, tubular animals with tentacles around the mouth, and Stegopus, snail-like animals, climb to the tops of the sponges and use them to filter low amounts of passing food. You can see a couple of Anazitonta and a lumpy-skinned Trachodermus picking off the smaller creatures of the reef. In all other directions are open sandy flats. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 45% (Juvenile) / 2.7cm / 5 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 23/23 (100% - 10% left over for growth) / 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 soundwavei (NT)
Temperate Shallows, Spring
As the current slowly drags you across the seabed, you look for somewhere to hide but there is nothing but flat sand in this part of the warm, bright water. You continue to be dragged along. There are Anazitonta of mixed sizes floating in the current with you as plankton. A jellyfish is coming in from the side to feed on the plankton. (3)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 20% (Hatchling) / 1.6cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 9/12 (77.5%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Anazitonta soundwavei
Latest Mutations: 4 = Faster growth rate, 5 = Longer life span, 4 = larger size
This relatively large species of Anazitonta is a hunter of smaller members of the genus; the ancestral Anazitonta anazitonta, as well as Pigocauda corallus. But luckily for these species it only inhabits the temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a constantly faster metabolism, so it is faster and grows faster - at the cost of expending more energy. It also does not age as quicker, so has a longer lifespan.
Status: U
Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (76/10 X 8 =) 61NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 30NP / 49NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Bioluminescence. Short-Term Memory.
Perception: Blurry sight. Can detect electrical signals up to tens of metres away and smells up to ten meters 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. 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.
@blackink - Points Stored = 0
Sarcodiscus acrodontus (CR)
Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Plains, Wet Season
In the warm, murky stream, you notice that one of the Icthyotelus has stopped moving and you go over to get a bite. It seems to have suddenly died and sinks to the riverbed. You attach your mouth to the corpse and begin feeding but you can only do so briefly before a large Gempliaori becomes interested. It wanders over and you are forced to flee the corpse, having fed only a bit. Around you, several Icthyotelus are filtering the particles from the water. A few patches of algae grow at the side of the river, where only one Gempliaori is grazing down one end. You are no longer starving. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 30% (Juvenile) / 2cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 8/17 (45%) / 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.
@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 1
Gempliaori secarus, Male (LC)
Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Plains, Dry Season
Darkness arrives just as you decide to stop looking for meat and feed on algae. You cannot see a thing in this night without even a moon to light up the spring. Furthermore, the night air is freezing and even causes the surface of the spring to freeze over. You try to push your way out of the spring to wander across land but you are stuck. Eventually, light begins to reappear and the small layer of ice thaws quickly. No other animals have yet made their way here. The only other food source are the clumps of algae. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 95% (Subadult) / 5cm / 11 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition//Hydration: 24/48 (50%) / 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]
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R.163 - P.2
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 0
Parasiphunculus springbloomi (LC)
Tropical Shallows
You are looking for a place amongst the sponges to filter food, when the water starts become choppier. Soon, itâs been whipped up into a full-blown storm and you are being carried around in many different directions by the stormy water and are unable to feed. Lots of other creatures suffer this too, from Stegopus to Anazitonta. When the storm finally stops and you are released from its clutches, you find yourself deposited in a tidepool surrounded by dry rock. There is not much food here; very little marine snow. Thereâs just a Stegopus minding its own business. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 60% (Juvenile) / 2.7cm / 7 months
Health: Starving
Nutrition//Hydration: 15/23 (65%) / 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)
Polar Moderate Oceanic Humid Plains, Early Spring
1
NOT YET VOTED
The approaching large Gempliaori is a threat and so you try to flee out of its warpath. You swim upwards but it is hard going because you are so small and the water therefore viscous. Fortunately, you just manage to scramble high enough to escape the Gempliaori but you are clear of the gravel so the streamâs flow picks you up. You pass over the pebble-covered riverbed but cannot swim back against the current. As you travel quickly downstream through the cool, clear water, you see that you are flowing alongside planktonic Icthyotelus young and a large Gempliaori is paddling through the water - is this food? (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 0.8mm / 0 days
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 4/8 (50%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Mandibulidon serialkilleri
Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Nocturnis Stage of the Oliverian)
Habitat: Tropical Rainforest, Tropical Monsoon Forest, Savannah, Hot Steppe, Subtropical Desert, Chaparral, Temperate Forest, Taiga Estuaries
Distribution: Tartarus Brackish and Freshwater
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (9.6 x 8 =) 77NP
Predecessor: Ocuteras segmipano
Classification: Mandibulidontinae (sf), Ocuterasidae (f), Mandibulata (so), Critteroidea (sc), Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, blurry front vision with depth perception. Can perceive blue and green light.
Latest Mutations: Improve Bite Force = 6, Increase Size = 3, Legs = 4
Info: Large, tough pincers around the mouth can break through even the calcified exoskeleton of its cousin, Gempliaori and sharp barbs like teeth on the inside of the pincers shred up food into more manageable pieces. It hunts this other species but can also be found feeding on vegetation. Compared to Gempliaori 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 = 2
Trachodermus ooferei (NT) - Male
Tropical Shallows
A current carries you over a distant journey, through the void of the open, very warm sea. On your journey, you find a large Parasiphunculus that appears to be very weak. You swim towards it and easily snap it up in your jaws and have yourself a meal. Eventually, you can see seabed below you. Lots of Parasiphunculus are gathered over a large mound of sand. A few other predators, like other Trachodermus and Anazitonta, are also lurking about the mound because of the abundance of prey. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 70% (Juvenile) / 3.5cm / 8 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 26/26 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Trachodermus ooferei
Latest Mutations: 6 = Sexes, 5 = Tough skin, 2 = Improve digestive system to absorb more nutrients
Distinctive by the lumps of keratin that cover the skin, Trachodermus is a Sanicthyopsine that lives only in the tropics. It competes with Anazitonta anazitonta for prey, which is slightly faster but Trachodermus has a defensive advantage. However, Trachodermus has a shorter and less effective intestine. They have different reproductive methods because Trachodermus has sexes, which can also be swapped when there is too few of a certain sex around.
Status: NT
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (76/10 X 5 =) 38NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 19NP / 34NP
Abilities: Bioluminescence. Short-Term Memory.
Perception: Blurry sight. Can detect electrical signals up to tens of metres away and smells up to ten meters 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. Cycloid scales cover the keratinised skin layer containing keratin scutes, 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 short 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.
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 1
Gempliaori pollakra (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Barrens
You pounce on the first Gempliaori secarus while it is grazing on the algae. It is much younger and smaller than you. You grab it with your pincers and try to crush it but you cannot penetrate the hard exoskeleton. It rolls up into a ball as well and you have no choice but to give up. The two Gempliaori secarus still remain in this area of the pond, but the Masticephalus have swum to the other side, out of sight through the murk of the very warm pond. There is still plenty of algae. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 30% (Juvenile) / 2.5cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 15/24 (65%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
[details=âGempliaori pollakraâ]
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 Freshwater & Estuaries
Distribution: Tartarus Brackish and Freshwater
Niche: Predator
Lifespan: 1 - 2 years
Size: 8cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (9.6 x 8 =) 77NP
Predecessor: Ocuteras segmipano
Classification: Gempliaoriinae (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: Tougher Complete Exoskeleton = 6, Kidneys = 3, Legs = 6
Info: Arthropods seem to have evolved not once but several times. Five pairs of legs in total protrude from the body, with the front pair becoming chelipeds (ending in pincers). These can be used for grasping or light attacks. The back legs can help a little with swimming, as they are each lined with a longitudinal paddle. Furthermore, these legs can carry them out of water, although only briefly as they have to breathe and remain hydrated - but this is what they usually do to find an isolated pool to moult in. They now are one of the best defended organisms in Ezta, with a complete exoskeleton that is calcified for extra hardness but is flexible enough because of the chitin that it could roll up into a ball.
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 small 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.
Discoverer: Jellyfishmon
@Skyguy98 - Points Stored = 0
Gempliaori secarus, Male (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Barrens
Just as you are about to launch an attack on the Masticephalus swimming above, the large Gempliaori pollakra pounces on the other Gempliaori secaru. The commotion scares the Masticephalus which flee. You chase after them but they have already disappeared into the murk of the pond and you cannot relocate them. The two other Gempliaori still remain in this area of the pond, but the Masticephalus have swum to the other side, out of sight through the murk of the very warm pond. There is still plenty of algae. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 10% (Hatchling) / 0.6cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Nutrition//Hydration: 4/6 (65%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Gempliaori secarus
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.
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Feed on the algae left behind by the fleeing masticephalus, keeping an eye on the pollakra in cause it heads in my direction
Feed on the algae while looking for weak prey close by and if one is close enough pounce and hopefully scuttle to shelter with a meal.
Action: Leave the area and hunt some food
Action: Start Grazing down the algae from the other end opposite to the Gempliaori
Just some tips on the level of detail @soundwave: Maybe specify what direction youâd like to leave the area in, what sort of area you want to hunt in and how exactly youâd like to hunt, that sort of thing. Itâs just unfortunately a bit vague now that Iâd like more details in your answers. Thanks.
Ahh okay sorry about that
Action: Go west and find a coral reef or a kelp forest and hide in the area and eat anything that seems to be an easy prey
Action: Try and find a dead Parasiphunculus, but if I canât, steal a anazitontas kill
@AgentTine, @immortaldragon, @jellyfishmon, @Spring_blooms, @serialkiller, I donât think you have voted yet.
Thanks for the reminder Stealth. Kinda forgot. 
Action: Keep an eye out for predators while feeding on the soft corals nearest me. If thereâs any sign of them approaching then I will flee back to cover with my sharp toothed maw pointing back out at them if they follow.
Round 164 - P.1
~54.6 million years since the Atroxian Explosion~
Oliverian Period, Nocturnus Stage
Event: 6 - None
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@Agenttine - Points Stored = 3
Mandibulidon serialkilleri (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Plains
You climb out of the pool onto the edge of the rock-strewn, sandy land. You are pelted by rain through the hot, humid air. The missing leg makes it a bit more difficult to walk on land. You peer around the nearby area, but you can see no other Mandibulidon out of the water. A larger, flowing body of water remains visible in the distance but you return to the original pond, just behind you. The only other life here is a few Masticephalus peacefully filtering through the water. The surface, which is being pelted with rain and outside the pool is easily accessible for you. Having not eaten in a while, you are now starving. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 8cm / 12 months
Health: Missing leg, starving
Nutrition/Hydration: 8/77 (10%) / 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 enter the small reef and are able to begin feeding on soft corals unchallenged. Fortunately, no predator seems to be targeting you, and every time they pass, you are able to find shelter in a drag in the coral or something similar until they pass. For about half a year you live like this on this reef and you manage to survive and grow almost into adulthood. In this reef there are several soft corals growing alongside amorphous sponges. You have finished off the last of your latest soft coral, which is now a dilapidated pile and provides little food or shelter. Entaops, tubular animals with tentacles around the mouth, and Stegopus, snail-like animals, climb to the tops of the sponges and use them to filter low amounts of passing food. You can see a couple of Anazitonta and a lumpy-skinned Trachodermus picking off the smaller creatures of the reef. Another couple of Pigocauda are feeding here. In all other directions are open sandy flats. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 95% (Subadult) / 5.5cm / 11 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 47/47 (100% - 50% left over for growth) / 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 = 4
Anazitonta soundwavei (NT)
_Temperate Shallows, Early Winter
The current continues to carry you on and takes you right into a bed of sponges and soft corals, surrounded by the headlands of a bay, where the current seems to die off and you are able to swim freely. You hide behind the branches of one of the fan-shaped soft corals. On a nearby rock, you see a small polychaete worm, and you quickly snap up the soft flesh before it can hide back under a rock. You continue to live here for another several months, feeding well. You see a large corpse of another Anazitonta laying in the sand not far in front of you. Around you is a sparse grouping of sponges and soft corals. Around you, you can see a couple of polychaete worms sticking out of crevices, as well as Stegopus snails. Above you, some Masticephalus filter around and an Ossiculodermis has grabbed one. There is also a couple of Anazitonta, patrolling around the surface. The temperature is cooler. (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: 58% (Juvenile) / 4.5cm / 10 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 34/34 (100% - 28% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Anazitonta soundwavei
Latest Mutations: 4 = Faster growth rate, 5 = Longer life span, 4 = larger size
This relatively large species of Anazitonta is a hunter of smaller members of the genus; the ancestral Anazitonta anazitonta, as well as Pigocauda corallus. But luckily for these species it only inhabits the temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a constantly faster metabolism, so it is faster and grows faster - at the cost of expending more energy. It also does not age as quicker, so has a longer lifespan.
Status: U
Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (76/10 X 8 =) 61NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 30NP / 49NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Bioluminescence. Short-Term Memory.
Perception: Blurry sight. Can detect electrical signals up to tens of metres away and smells up to ten meters 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. 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.
@blackink - Points Stored = 0
Sarcodiscus acrodontus (CR)
Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Plains, Wet Season
You move to the side of the river, towards a clump of algae on the opposite side to a Gempliaori. You begin scraping off the algae with your mouth. The Gempliaori ignores you and you are able to feed very well on this algae. You are completely replenished nutrition-wise and survive long enough to grow a little. The Gempliaori has left and even the algae on the other side of the river has now been left open. All you can see around you in the very warm, quite murky river are several Icthyotelus, filtering passing particles. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% (Juvenile) / 2.5cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 20/20 (100% - 5% left over for growth) / 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.
@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 2
Gempliaori secarus, Male (LC)
Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Plains, Wet Season
When the day arrives again, you are able to see clearly the algae growing in the spring, and you have a full, easy meal. The algae keeps you going for another month and allows you to grow into an adult, ready to reproduce. As luck would have it, itâs also the end of the dry season, and rain refreshes the pool of water, which over the month grows until it reconnects with the stream. More green algae is able to spring to life in this expanded water habitat, Icthyotelus begin filtering the waterway and even a few other Gempliaori secarus arrive to make the most of the food. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 6cm / 12 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition//Hydration: 58/58 (100% - 10% left over for growth) / 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]
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R.164 - P.2
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 0
Parasiphunculus springbloomi (NT)
Tropical Shallows
4 + 1 = NOT YET VOTED
You are looking for a place amongst the sponges to filter food, when the water starts become choppier. Soon, itâs been whipped up into a full-blown storm and you are being carried around in many different directions by the stormy water and are unable to feed. Lots of other creatures suffer this too, from Stegopus to Anazitonta. When the storm finally stops and you are released from its clutches, you find yourself deposited in a tidepool surrounded by dry rock. There is not much food here; very little marine snow. Thereâs just a Stegopus minding its own business. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 60% (Juvenile) / 2.7cm / 7 months
Health: Starving
Nutrition//Hydration: 15/23 (65%) / 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)
Polar Moderate Oceanic Humid Plains, Early Spring
As you flow on the current of the stream, particles of food also float along. Ordinarily, you couldnât eat these because you are not built for filtering, but as you are less than a millimetre long, the particle is large enough in comparison for you to grab it and start feeding off it. It is enough to nourish you and fill you up. You pass over the pebble-covered riverbed but cannot swim back against the current. As you travel quickly downstream through the cool, clear water, you see that you are flowing alongside a few Masticephalus and a few Gempliaori, paddling through the water. Patches of algae dot the riverbed, where a Mandibulidon lies. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 0.8mm / 0 days
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 8/8 (100%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Mandibulidon serialkilleri
Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Nocturnis Stage of the Oliverian)
Habitat: Tropical Rainforest, Tropical Monsoon Forest, Savannah, Hot Steppe, Subtropical Desert, Chaparral, Temperate Forest, Taiga Estuaries
Distribution: Tartarus Brackish and Freshwater
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (9.6 x 8 =) 77NP
Predecessor: Ocuteras segmipano
Classification: Mandibulidontinae (sf), Ocuterasidae (f), Mandibulata (so), Critteroidea (sc), Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, blurry front vision with depth perception. Can perceive blue and green light.
Latest Mutations: Improve Bite Force = 6, Increase Size = 3, Legs = 4
Info: Large, tough pincers around the mouth can break through even the calcified exoskeleton of its cousin, Gempliaori and sharp barbs like teeth on the inside of the pincers shred up food into more manageable pieces. It hunts this other species but can also be found feeding on vegetation. Compared to Gempliaori 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 = 2
Trachodermus ooferei (NT) - Male
Tropical Shallows
You swim around the loose group of Parasiphunculus, scouring the seafloor for any that may have died and sunk to the bottom. However, the sandy floor is devoid of any corpses, so you turn your attention on the living. An Anazitonta has made a succesful catch, blood spilling into the water and it bites through a Parasiphunculus. You attempt to snatch a bit of food from the Anazitonta and race over as quick as you can. A larger Anazitonta suddenly rushes in front of you, just slightly faster, and nabs the half of the Parasiphunculus that was not in the first Anazitontaâs mouth. You go hungry this time. You can see seabed below you. Lots of Parasiphunculus are gathered over a large mound of sand. A few other predators, like other Trachodermus and Anazitonta, are also lurking about the mound because of the abundance of prey. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 70% (Juvenile) / 3.5cm / 8 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 17/26 (65%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Trachodermus ooferei
Latest Mutations: 6 = Sexes, 5 = Tough skin, 2 = Improve digestive system to absorb more nutrients
Distinctive by the lumps of keratin that cover the skin, Trachodermus is a Sanicthyopsine that lives only in the tropics. It competes with Anazitonta anazitonta for prey, which is slightly faster but Trachodermus has a defensive advantage. However, Trachodermus has a shorter and less effective intestine. They have different reproductive methods because Trachodermus has sexes, which can also be swapped when there is too few of a certain sex around.
Status: NT
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (76/10 X 5 =) 38NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 19NP / 34NP
Abilities: Bioluminescence. Short-Term Memory.
Perception: Blurry sight. Can detect electrical signals up to tens of metres away and smells up to ten meters 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. Cycloid scales cover the keratinised skin layer containing keratin scutes, 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 short 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.
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 2
Gempliaori pollakra (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Barrens
You get some easy food by grazing on the abundant algae covering the bottom of the warm pond when you see a drifting Masticephalus passing by, looking quite weak. You reach up your pincers and grab it, pulling it back down to you. You cut it up with your pincers and eat it. You find a rock and scuttle underneath. You live here for another couple of months, all while growing in size and maturity. There is still plenty of algae outside and you cannot see any other Gempliaori here anymore, at least not as far as the murk allows you to see. (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: 45% (Juvenile) / 3.5cm / 5 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 34/34 (100% - 20% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
[details=âGempliaori pollakraâ]
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 Freshwater & Estuaries
Distribution: Tartarus Brackish and Freshwater
Niche: Predator
Lifespan: 1 - 2 years
Size: 8cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (9.6 x 8 =) 77NP
Predecessor: Ocuteras segmipano
Classification: Gempliaoriinae (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: Tougher Complete Exoskeleton = 6, Kidneys = 3, Legs = 6
Info: Arthropods seem to have evolved not once but several times. Five pairs of legs in total protrude from the body, with the front pair becoming chelipeds (ending in pincers). These can be used for grasping or light attacks. The back legs can help a little with swimming, as they are each lined with a longitudinal paddle. Furthermore, these legs can carry them out of water, although only briefly as they have to breathe and remain hydrated - but this is what they usually do to find an isolated pool to moult in. They now are one of the best defended organisms in Ezta, with a complete exoskeleton that is calcified for extra hardness but is flexible enough because of the chitin that it could roll up into a ball.
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 small 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.
Discoverer: Jellyfishmon
@Skyguy98 - Points Stored = 0
Gempliaori secarus, Male (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Barrens
By going in the direction of the Masticephalus, you lose sight of the other Gempliaori in the murk of the hot pond. There is less algae here but still some and you eat what is left. The other Gempliaori secarus - about your size - has also appeared on this side of the pond and starts eating the remains of the algae. You live for a few more weeks and grow slightly but now there is very little algae. A few Masticephalus swim overhead, while the other Gempliaori secarus is still about. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% (Hatchling) / 0.9cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Nutrition//Hydration: 9/9 (100% - 20% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Gempliaori secarus
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.
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Action: repeat what I just did.
Thanks for the round stealth. Glad im finally an adult.
Action: swim around the pool to find a mate