Action: swim around again, trying to find corpses, but if I can’t, go for a Parasiphunculus
Okey, seems like I have free rein but there aren’t corpses around so:
Action: Go to the other side of the river to feast on the free algae, smelling the water from time to time to remain aware of the surroundings
Let’s try sneaking up on one of the masticephalus and eating something a little more filling
Action: Try to make my way out of the tide pool, waiting for the right moment so I don’t damage myself against the stones.
Sorry if I’m missing something, where exactly am I voting, and for what?
Action: Stay inside of the coral reef and find some way to better hide myself to rest
Please pardon my delay in responding. 
Action: Feed on some more of the soft corals around, once more keeping an eye out for predators. Using the other prey animals’ reactions to judge when a predator is near.
Round 165 - P.1
~55 million years since the Atroxian Explosion~
Oliverian Period, Nocturnus Stage
Event: 12 - Cylonic Storm
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In the tropics, the ocean has become so heated that it is generating an enormous amount of energy. Powerful winds are forming and clouds are beginning to rotate.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 3
Mandibulidon serialkilleri (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Plains
You swim slowly across the pond and the Masticephalus do not realise you are there as they continue to feed. It’s only when you get really close to one that it tries to flee but with a burst from your hyponome you zoom into it and grasp it with your mandibles. You easily cut into it and gulp it down. You manage to catch another one as well, and this period of time has seen you recover a decent amount of energy. The only other life here is a few Masticephalus peacefully filtering through the water and another Mandibulidon that has entered the pond. The surface, which is being pelted with rain and outside the pool is easily accessible for you. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 8cm / 12 months
Health: Missing leg
Nutrition/Hydration: 46/77 (60%) / 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 it’s four pairs of legs are rather simple, but they still help it walk around on surfaces and even briefly on land.
_Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body with blue pigmentation, a proboscis and protected by a jointed, tough chitin shield. Slightly longer, touch chitinous pincers protrude from around the mouth, with sharp barbs. There are chemoreceptors on the proboscis. It also has two eyes on the front of the head and one compound eye on each side. Two receptor types means it has dichromatic colour vision. Spiracles sit behind the head. It has four pair of simple, chitinous legs. There is a chitinous fan-tail, above a hyponome, at the rear.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates blue blood containing hemocyanin and anti-freeze proteins - the spiracles link to the major blood vessels. Also, a network of protonephridia expels waste through pores. Muscles on each side of the body are attached to the body wall. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a muscular stomach with digestive juices followed by coiled intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into a network of nerves. There is a swim bladder in the middle, not connected to the gut. It hosts both male and female gonads. The body contains a coelom cavity, filled with a bitter fluid.
Discoverer: Serialkiller
@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 0
Pigocauda corallus (NT)
Tropical Shallows
I’ll get to you soon
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 it’s food is located. Unlike its hunting relatives, it’s 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 it’s 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
Around you in the cool, quite murky water, 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. You simply continue to hide in a soft coral fan. (3 + 1)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 58% (Juvenile) / 4.5cm / 10 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 27/34 (80%) / 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 it’s base. Cycloid scales cover the thin skin layer, a line of electroreceptors on the flank and blue autogenic photophores dot the body. A mouth containing lots of razor-shaped teeth, olfactory receptors and upwards facing pinhole eyes make up the face.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits sit each side of head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin. Muscles line either side of the body between the body wall and the cartilage membrane. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has stomach a with digestive juices followed by intestines leading to the anus. A slightly bigger brain, with a memory lobe, encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into network of nerves. A swim bladder lies in the centre of the body, near to the electric organ. It hosts male and female gonads. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
@blackink - Points Stored = 0
Sarcodiscus acrodontus (CR)
Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Plains, Wet Season
You start swimming over to the algae on the other side of the river when suddenly a tidal bore from downstream comes rushing up the river, churning up the water in front of you. You are caught up in the massive wave which carries you in its path. You have no choice but to simply go with it. Eventually, the tidal bore loses energy and you are free from its clutches. You were not able to feed on the algae but at least you didn’t lose much energy. There is still plenty of algae along this part of the river but also several Gempliaori have been deposited here by the bore along with Ichtyotelus. One of the Icthyotelus here appears to be dead, laying still on the floor after the wave. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% (Juvenile) / 2.5cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 15/20 (75%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Sarcodiscus acrodontus
Latest Mutations: Nostrils = 3, Sexes = 2, Iguana’s 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
There are now several Gempliaori secarus in the stream and you approach one. It is receptive and you successfully mate, scattering your eggs into the stream. The stream is muddy and hot, populated by a few growths of algae, some Icthyotelus and Gempliaori secarus. (4 + 1 = Congratulations, it’s 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) / 6cm / 12 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition//Hydration: 37/58 (65%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
[details=”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.[/details]
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R.165 - P.2
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 0
Parasiphunculus springbloomi (NT)
Tropical Shallows
As the sea once again enshrouds your tidepool, returning it to the sea, you are able to row your way back into open water. You are now starving. Out here there is a field of rocks as far as you can see, which isn’t far. The rocks have smatterings of algae interspersed with seaweed. You can only sense a couple of Stegopus. You sense an increase in available food whenever you near the top of a rock. Winds start forming, and clouds begin rotating in the sky above. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 60% (Juvenile) / 2.7cm / 7 months
Health: Starving
Nutrition//Hydration: 7/23 (30%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Parasiphunculus springbloomi
Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Nocturnis Stage of the Oliverian)
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 4.5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (8.8 x 2.3 =) 20NP
Predecessor: Tetrabitia caereleus
Classification: Pictolexipotusinae (sf), Pictolexipotusidae (f), Tunicaphora (o), Violetamata ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Can sense chemicals from 10s of metres away, has acute chemical sensing, and has blurry eyesight in one direction with no depth perception.
Latest Mutations: Bigger, Tubes for Food = 2, Better Eyesight = 5, Memory = 6
Info: For some unknown reason, a long, tube-like structure extends down from the main body. It’s function is not clear so it doesn’t seem to do anything positive for the animal. On the other hand, it can see clearly on one side of the body, and at least detect light with the other. It is also able to remember long-term events, and remember dangerous species and prosperous locations, as examples.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body but with an umbrella-shaped top, composed of four lobes that can fold up, with blue pigmentation and four fleshy membranes down the sides, each lined with thousands of cillia. It has a thin skin layer. A mouth with chemoreceptors, small tentacles also with chemoreceptors and a single eye are on the head, with an eyespot on the other side. A long, tube-like structure extends below the body.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. Six gill slits sit each side of head. Muscles on each side are attached to the body wall. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with digestive juices followed by intestines leading to the anus. A slightly bigger brain, with a memory lobe, encased in the head connects to one nerve cords which branches into a network of nerves, with a notochord running alongside. It hosts both male and female gonads. The hemacoel cavity, open circulatory system has violet blood containing hemerythrin and anti-freeze proteins. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Discoverer: SpringBloom
@Serialkiller - Points Stored = 1
Mandibulidon serialkilleri (LC)
Polar Moderate Oceanic Humid Plains, Early Spring
5 + 1 = NOT YET VOTED
As you flow on the current of the stream, particles of food also float along. Ordinarily, you couldn’t 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 it’s four pairs of legs are rather simple, but they still help it walk around on surfaces and even briefly on land.
_Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body with blue pigmentation, a proboscis and protected by a jointed, tough chitin shield. Slightly longer, touch chitinous pincers protrude from around the mouth, with sharp barbs. There are chemoreceptors on the proboscis. It also has two eyes on the front of the head and one compound eye on each side. Two receptor types means it has dichromatic colour vision. Spiracles sit behind the head. It has four pair of simple, chitinous legs. There is a chitinous fan-tail, above a hyponome, at the rear.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates blue blood containing hemocyanin and anti-freeze proteins - the spiracles link to the major blood vessels. Also, a network of protonephridia expels waste through pores. Muscles on each side of the body are attached to the body wall. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a muscular stomach with digestive juices followed by coiled intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into a network of nerves. There is a swim bladder in the middle, not connected to the gut. It hosts both male and female gonads. The body contains a coelom cavity, filled with a bitter fluid.
Discoverer: Serialkiller
@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 2
Trachodermus ooferei (NT) - Male
Tropical Shallows
In the hot, clear tropical shallows you swim around the loose group of Parasiphunculus, scouring the seafloor for any that may have died and sunk to the bottom. This time you are in luck and spot a Parasiphunculus corpse laying in the sand. You get down before any other predators are able to and tuck in on the free meal. You eat most of the corpse before you are full. About three months pass and you continue living well in this area. You are now almost an adult. 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. Winds start forming, and clouds begin rotating in the sky above. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 95% (Subadult) / 4.5cm / 11 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 34/34 (100% - 25% 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 it’s 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=”Gempliaori pollakra”]
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
In the hot, murky pond you watch one of the Masticephalus as it sinks quite close to the ground. It moves slowly, almost drifting. You follow it and it appears to pay no attention to you. You reach out to grab it with a pincer when a larger pincer materialises out of the gloom and snatches it. When it starts devouring the meal, you retreat, moving yourself far enough away that the murk hides you from sight. A few Masticephalus still swim overhead, while the other Gempliaori secarus is still about. The large one; you cannot see. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% (Hatchling) / 0.9cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Nutrition//Hydration: 7/9 (75%) / 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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Thanks for the round stealth glad I finally got to reproduce!
Action: continue and find another mate
you just reposted the last rounds results for my tab.
@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 1
Pigocauda corallus (NT)
Tropical Shallows
In the hot, clear tropical sea, you feed on a soft coral. Predators luckily do not seem to be taking much notice of you and you are able to eat freely. You continue to eat and grow for another month when you finally reach maturity, ready to reproduce. There is still plenty of this one particular soft coral left, even enough to shelter in, which you are currently doing. Another Pigocauda surprisingly joins you in the coral. This deeper, craggy edge of the reef is quite tranquil with fewer animals than elsewhere. You can sense no predators, only a single Entaops. In this direction, the reef drops away, and a sandy plain stretches into the distance. In the other direction, it becomes shallower and the reef becomes denser. Winds start forming, and clouds begin rotating in the sky above. (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 / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 51/51 (100% - 60% 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 it’s food is located. Unlike its hunting relatives, it’s 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 it’s 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.
@Serialkiller - Points Stored = 1
Mandibulidon serialkilleri (LC)
Subpolar Moderate Oceanic Humid Plains, Late Autumn
You cannot move against the current but you are able to move down through the water layer. You move into the gap between pebbles and this shelters you from the current. Meanwhile, you begin grazing on the scraps of algae that grow here. Over the next few months, you inhabit this pebbly stream bed, feeding on all kinds of things and growing safely into a juvenile. As you increase in size, you are no longer able to fit between the pebbles, but as you walk across the top, you are no longer taken away by the current. But as the months wore on, the light decreased and now there is nothing. Very briefly, faint light as though from dawn, appears although it is still very difficult to see. The stream slows and the current fails as a layer of ice freezes over the surface, trapping all the animals inside. The water is cold. Luckily, a corpse of a Gempliaori is half trapped in ice right in front of you. In the small range of your perception, you do not sense any other Mandibulidon, just a handful of Ciliastoma. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 60% (Juvenile) / 5cm / 7 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 48/48 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Mandibulidon serialkilleri
Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Nocturnis Stage of the Oliverian)
Habitat: Tropical Rainforest, Tropical Monsoon Forest, Savannah, Hot Steppe, Subtropical Desert, Chaparral, Temperate Forest, Taiga Estuaries
Distribution: Tartarus Brackish and Freshwater
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (9.6 x 8 =) 77NP
Predecessor: Ocuteras segmipano
Classification: Mandibulidontinae (sf), Ocuterasidae (f), Mandibulata (so), Critteroidea (sc), Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, blurry front vision with depth perception. Can perceive blue and green light.
Latest Mutations: Improve Bite Force = 6, Increase Size = 3, Legs = 4
Info: Large, tough pincers around the mouth can break through even the calcified exoskeleton of its cousin, Gempliaori and sharp barbs like teeth on the inside of the pincers shred up food into more manageable pieces. It hunts this other species but can also be found feeding on vegetation. Compared to Gempliaori it’s four pairs of legs are rather simple, but they still help it walk around on surfaces and even briefly on land.
_Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body with blue pigmentation, a proboscis and protected by a jointed, tough chitin shield. Slightly longer, touch chitinous pincers protrude from around the mouth, with sharp barbs. There are chemoreceptors on the proboscis. It also has two eyes on the front of the head and one compound eye on each side. Two receptor types means it has dichromatic colour vision. Spiracles sit behind the head. It has four pair of simple, chitinous legs. There is a chitinous fan-tail, above a hyponome, at the rear.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates blue blood containing hemocyanin and anti-freeze proteins - the spiracles link to the major blood vessels. Also, a network of protonephridia expels waste through pores. Muscles on each side of the body are attached to the body wall. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a muscular stomach with digestive juices followed by coiled intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into a network of nerves. There is a swim bladder in the middle, not connected to the gut. It hosts both male and female gonads. The body contains a coelom cavity, filled with a bitter fluid.
Discoverer: Serialkiller
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 3
Gempliaori pollakra (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Barrens
You exit the safety of the rock shelter. Once again, you graze on the algae of the very warm pond bottom. At one point, you see movement in the murk and follow it. It’s moving very slowly and seems to be another weak Masticephalus, just drifting aimlessly along. You reach out and grab it with your pincers, pulling it into you and then tearing it up. You eat the corpse and scuttle back under a rock.
You live in this area for many more months and eventually grow into a mature adult, ready to reproduce. There is still plenty of algae outside. You watch as another Gempliaori pollakra enters the pond from the surface above. (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) / 8cm / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 77/77 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
[details=”Gempliaori pollakra”]
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
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try to mate with the other Gempliaori pollakra but if it is not of age then attack it and drive it out of my feeding grounds (also try to eat it).
Thanks for the update Stealth. 
Action: Try to mate with the other Pigocauda if it’s an adult. If not, swim deeper if possible, those rotating clouds don’t look good.
Ufff, that cyclone could have gone much worse.
Action: Get closer to the Ichthyotelus and start to rasp it’s flesh with the teeth so the nutrients float around me to digest them.
I don’t trust those Gempliaori >_>
Action: Hunt the remaining Masticephalus and return to my spot within the soft coral fan with my food
eyyyy, a good roll!
Action: Take in as much food as possible as I reach the top of the rock, keeping an eye out for any potential threat, but more so being cautious of the weather conditions.
Thanks for the round Stealth!
Search through the muck, hopefully for some alage or easy prey that doesn’t spot me from the cover
Round 166* - P.1
~55.3 million years since the Atroxian Explosion~
Oliverian Period, Nocturnus Stage
Event: 9 - None
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Reward Shop
Rewards are subject to change.
- Bonus Point: Get a + or -1 to use on the action roll of any player, yourself included. = 1pt
- Guaranteed Action: Use this on an action to definitely roll a 4 or higher. = 2pts
- Guaranteed Evolution: Use this during evolution to definitely roll a 4 or higher. You can save them up and use multiple at once. = 3pts
- High Roller: Get a guaranteed 6 for either action or evolution. = 4pts
- Call of the Wild: Summon an event that focuses on any specific area of the world you choose. However, the event is random and may be larger than you anticipate. = 5pts
- Evolution Explosion: Every species immediately gets a chance to evolve, including yourself. = 7pts
The rotating storm in tropics, 2,000km wide, reaches full, roaring, hurricane-strength and pours down heavy rain, though there is an area of calm in the centre. It makes the ocean surface extremely choppy with very large waves and destroys small organisms in the upper levels of the water, throwing them about and chucking them up onto beaches. The cyclonic storm travels for thousands of kilometres, gradually moving north-west, where it hits the land. The storm continues over it but the strength gradually decreases. Heavy rains flood the land and the winds kick up massive dust storms. Eventually, it subsides.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 3
Mandibulidon serialkilleri (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Plains
You approach the new Mandibulidon in the hot, muddy pond but it is not receptive; it is quite a bit smaller and not yet mature. It fights you off so you leave to find another Mandibulidon. You clamber out of the pond and onto land. The rain continues drizzling across the sandy, rocky landscape as you look around you. You cannot see any other life out here, although you spot a river a way in front. The pond remains behind you. You are running out of oxygen. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 8cm / 12 months
Health: Missing leg
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 34/77 (45%) / 75%
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 it’s four pairs of legs are rather simple, but they still help it walk around on surfaces and even briefly on land.
_Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body with blue pigmentation, a proboscis and protected by a jointed, tough chitin shield. Slightly longer, touch chitinous pincers protrude from around the mouth, with sharp barbs. There are chemoreceptors on the proboscis. It also has two eyes on the front of the head and one compound eye on each side. Two receptor types means it has dichromatic colour vision. Spiracles sit behind the head. It has four pair of simple, chitinous legs. There is a chitinous fan-tail, above a hyponome, at the rear.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates blue blood containing hemocyanin and anti-freeze proteins - the spiracles link to the major blood vessels. Also, a network of protonephridia expels waste through pores. Muscles on each side of the body are attached to the body wall. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a muscular stomach with digestive juices followed by coiled intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into a network of nerves. There is a swim bladder in the middle, not connected to the gut. It hosts both male and female gonads. The body contains a coelom cavity, filled with a bitter fluid.
Discoverer: Serialkiller
@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 1
Pigocauda corallus (NT)
Tropical Shallows
In a soft coral in the hot, clear tropical sea, you approach the neighboring Pigocauda. It too is an adult, and you successfully reproduce, scattering eggs into the water. But then the waves get choppier, and so you head downwards off the coral and onto the relatively deeper sandy plains. You manage to get deep enough that the raging cyclone does not effect you. Eventually, it subsid and he surface calms. You are now on a sandy plain. In one direction, the water gets shallower, and a small cliff leads to a reef where soft corals stick out over the edge. In the other directions, the sandy plain stretches on, and an Anazitonta patrols. (5 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 3 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 6cm / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 43/51 (85%) / 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 it’s food is located. Unlike its hunting relatives, it’s 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 it’s 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
From the soft coral fan, you spot a Masticephalus above. You swim upwards to attack it but you didn’t realise that the water was becoming steadily choppier. A storm has broken out and the surface is wracked with large waves and winds. You had swum straight at it and are now caught up. You are tossed around the in the storm and eventually wind up on a beach when the storm subsides. You aren’t too far from the surf and manage to wriggle into the oncoming tide. You are swept back into the sea. You are in very shallow water over a rippling sandy plain. Behind you, the sea becomes beach and in the opposite direction it gets slowly deeper. Lots of Masticephalus have gathered in the shallows followed by several Anazitonta. A large number of Rostrocephales have also gathered, prowling across the sand. The tide is moving up the beach. (1 + 1)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 58% (Juvenile) / 4.5cm / 10 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 24/34 (70%) / 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: NT
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 it’s base. Cycloid scales cover the thin skin layer, a line of electroreceptors on the flank and blue autogenic photophores dot the body. A mouth containing lots of razor-shaped teeth, olfactory receptors and upwards facing pinhole eyes make up the face.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits sit each side of head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin. Muscles line either side of the body between the body wall and the cartilage membrane. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has stomach a with digestive juices followed by intestines leading to the anus. A slightly bigger brain, with a memory lobe, encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into network of nerves. A swim bladder lies in the centre of the body, near to the electric organ. It hosts male and female gonads. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
@blackink - Points Stored = 0
Sarcodiscus acrodontus (CR)
Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Plains, Wet Season
You start to swim towards the Icthyotelus corpse on the riverbed of the hot, muddy river but some Gempliaori have got there first, crawling across the floor and boosting through the water. You give up on that, not wanting to get too close to the Gempliaori. Most of the living Icthyotelus have now dispersed, but the algae remains and it has been left unattended except for another Sarcodiscus, blissfully feeding. The Gempliaori have almost finished off the corpse. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% (Juvenile) / 2.5cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 100% / 12/20 (60%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Sarcodiscus acrodontus
Latest Mutations: Nostrils = 3, Sexes = 2, Iguana’s 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
You search across the riverbed of the hot, muddy stream for another mate. There are several Gempliaori secarus here but the first few you approach are either too young or males, which each fight you off. When you’ve crossed to the either side of the stream, you find a receptive female and successfully mate, scattering your eggs into the stream. There is a few growths of algae, some Icthyotelus and Gempliaori secarus. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 6cm / 12 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 29/58 (50%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: Reproductive Points = 1
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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R.166 - P.2
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 1
Parasiphunculus springbloomi (NT)
Tropical Shallows
You maintain position at the top of the rock, holding in place as best as you can and grabbing in particles with your tentacles. The rough sea stirs up more food than usual and you feed well on these particles, unopposed. But the weather conditions just get worse and the sea goes mad as a cyclone is unleashed on the tropics. You cannot escape to deeper water but you manage to squeeze yourself into a crevice between rocks, where you are sheltered. You survive the cyclone. When the sea calms, you venture back out. You are one of the few survivors here, with only a couple of Coliteuthis at the edge of your chemical-sensing range. However, you sense a lot of food suspended in the water around you in this rocky field in hot, clear water, that has been drawn up by the cyclone. (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: 60% (Juvenile) / 2.7cm / 7 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition//Hydration: 80% / 20/23 (90%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Parasiphunculus springbloomi
Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Nocturnis Stage of the Oliverian)
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 4.5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (8.8 x 2.3 =) 20NP
Predecessor: Tetrabitia caereleus
Classification: Pictolexipotusinae (sf), Pictolexipotusidae (f), Tunicaphora (o), Violetamata ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Can sense chemicals from 10s of metres away, has acute chemical sensing, and has blurry eyesight in one direction with no depth perception.
Latest Mutations: Bigger, Tubes for Food = 2, Better Eyesight = 5, Memory = 6
Info: For some unknown reason, a long, tube-like structure extends down from the main body. It’s function is not clear so it doesn’t seem to do anything positive for the animal. On the other hand, it can see clearly on one side of the body, and at least detect light with the other. It is also able to remember long-term events, and remember dangerous species and prosperous locations, as examples.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body but with an umbrella-shaped top, composed of four lobes that can fold up, with blue pigmentation and four fleshy membranes down the sides, each lined with thousands of cillia. It has a thin skin layer. A mouth with chemoreceptors, small tentacles also with chemoreceptors and a single eye are on the head, with an eyespot on the other side. A long, tube-like structure extends below the body.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. Six gill slits sit each side of head. Muscles on each side are attached to the body wall. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with digestive juices followed by intestines leading to the anus. A slightly bigger brain, with a memory lobe, encased in the head connects to one nerve cords which branches into a network of nerves, with a notochord running alongside. It hosts both male and female gonads. The hemacoel cavity, open circulatory system has violet blood containing hemerythrin and anti-freeze proteins. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Discoverer: SpringBloom
@Serialkiller - Points Stored = 2
Mandibulidon serialkilleri (LC)
Subpolar Moderate Oceanic Humid Plains, Early Spring
You easily eat the corpse partially stuck in the ice and have an easy meal. Despite the frozen world, you continue to survive and grow, living under the ice for a further five months, feeding on hapless passing animals that don’t see you in the dark. Many times though, you miss them because you cannot see. Eventually, you become an adult, ready to reproduce. The stream is still frozen over and it’s pitch black. However, you can sense another Gempliaori corpse drift onto the riverbed in front of you. Another living Mandibulidon is very close to you, around the corpse. Other than that there is just a handful of Ciliastoma. (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) / 8cm / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 80% / 77/77 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
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 it’s four pairs of legs are rather simple, but they still help it walk around on surfaces and even briefly on land.
_Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body with blue pigmentation, a proboscis and protected by a jointed, tough chitin shield. Slightly longer, touch chitinous pincers protrude from around the mouth, with sharp barbs. There are chemoreceptors on the proboscis. It also has two eyes on the front of the head and one compound eye on each side. Two receptor types means it has dichromatic colour vision. Spiracles sit behind the head. It has four pair of simple, chitinous legs. There is a chitinous fan-tail, above a hyponome, at the rear.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates blue blood containing hemocyanin and anti-freeze proteins - the spiracles link to the major blood vessels. Also, a network of protonephridia expels waste through pores. Muscles on each side of the body are attached to the body wall. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a muscular stomach with digestive juices followed by coiled intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into a network of nerves. There is a swim bladder in the middle, not connected to the gut. It hosts both male and female gonads. The body contains a coelom cavity, filled with a bitter fluid.
Discoverer: Serialkiller
@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 2
Trachodermus ooferei (NT) - Male
Tropical Shallows
NOT YET VOTED
In the hot, clear tropical shallows you swim around the loose group of Parasiphunculus, scouring the seafloor for any that may have died and sunk to the bottom. This time you are in luck and spot a Parasiphunculus corpse laying in the sand. You get down before any other predators are able to and tuck in on the free meal. You eat most of the corpse before you are full. About three months pass and you continue living well in this area. You are now almost an adult. 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. Winds start forming, and clouds begin rotating in the sky above. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 95% (Subadult) / 4.5cm / 11 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition/Hydration: 34/34 (100% - 25% 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 it’s 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 = 3
Gempliaori pollakra (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Barrens
The new Gempliaori pollakra entering the hot, muddy pond heads straight to you. Luckily, it wants to reproduce. You reproduce successfully and release your eggs into the pond. The Gempliaori pollakra moves on and disappears from sight but another has appeared in the area. There is plenty of algae here and some Masticephalus are filtering the surface. (6 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 3 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 8cm / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 66/77 (85%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
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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
You crawl about through the murky water of the hot pond, searching for food. You cannot see or sense very far, so it takes you a while to find anything. Eventually, you spot a small Masticephalus swimming overhead. You dart upwards grabbing it with you mandibles and using them to cut into your prey. In this way you kill it and you are able to feed. This enables you to survive for another month, during which you grow into a juvenile. You can now see that close by is a Mandibulidon, as well as a few patches of algae and a couple of Masticephalus filtering the surface. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 30% (Juvenile) / 2cm / 2 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition//Hydration: 70% / 19/19 (100% - 15% 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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