Tunisoma

## Tunisoma tunisoma

Latest Mutations: Tunic, Quite High Salinity Tolerance, Lose Antennae

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean

Niche: Benthic Filter Feeder

Size: 7cm (height)

Nutritional Need: 125 x 7/100 = 8.8NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 8.8 x 0.25 = 2.2NP per round (Needs to intake 2.2/0.7 = 3.1NP per round)/ 8.8NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Entaopsin Toxin. Foul Taste. Intolerant of more than Low Pressure. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Solid Excretion.

Perception: Sight 1 (sees blurrily from the sides, monocular vision, and from the front, binocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth).

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 2. Immunity 2. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Stamina 2. Strength 1. Support 2. Toughness 1. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move away. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move. Mating hormones + own species chemicals = reproduce. Move signal in water = hyponome boost. Move signal against a surface = peristalsis. ??? = move towards, wave cirri around.

External Features: It has a cylindrical body. The skin has blue irridiphore pigmentation. It has a mouth with cirri and around it are a few chemoreceptors. On the side of the head is a pair of pinhole eyes are front and a pair at the back. There is an exit hole near to the mouth.

Internal Features: There is a muscular pharynx. There is a big opening in the middle covered in a mucus net. It has a hemocoel carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a hydrostatic skeleton. It has gonads and a protonephridium. There is an enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a monogastric digestive system. A gland releases a foul fluid into the body fluids and another releases toxins. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Tunic (4NP, +1 Toughness, +1 Support). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight, +Binocular Vision, +Monocular Vision).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Muscular Pharynx. Mucus Net. Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilization). Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion, +Osmoregulation). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, +"Entaopsin Toxin"). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control).

Temporal Range: R.197 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Diplostoma protunicata

Classification: Tunisominae (sf), Diplostomidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle