Euops

## Euops brunnus

Latest Mutations: Move Eyes, Change Colour, Improve Sense of Smell

This primitive 'fish' grazes on algae one estuary on Olympia. It has eyes placed forwards which makes it easier to see ahead and has better smell to sense through the gloom of the estuary. To make it harder floored stores to spot, it is brown.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Brackish Water in Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens

Niche: Herbivore

Diet: Any vegetation it can get.

Size: 10cm (head to tail)

Nutritional Need: 76 x 10/100 = 7.6NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 7.6 x 0.25 = 1.9NP per round (Needs to intake 1.9/0.7 = 2.7NP per round)/ 7.6NP

Abilities: Exothermic. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. "Migmachordatix" Toxin. Osmoregulation (Brackish Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Urine Storage.

Perception: Sight 1 (sees blurrily in front, Binocular Vision). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 2 (Odours 5m from front).

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Evolution 1. Immunity 2. Filtration 0.5 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 2. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 3.3. Support 1. Toughness 0.5 (1.5 - head, spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Bite. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: It has a fish-shaped body with brown pigmentation, oval pectoral ray-fins, a caudal fin beneath the tail where there are also spines. Cycloid scales cover the skin and a line of electroreceptors on the flank dot the body. A mouth containing square teeth, olfactory receptors and forwards facing pinhole eyes make up the face.

Internal Features: Inside each cell has a low pressure tolerant metabolism. 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 simple heart. Muscles line either side of the body between the body wall and the cartilage vertebrae. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw, which is linked to a cartilage skull. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with digestive juices followed by intestines, with vegetation-digesting microfauna, leading to the anus. A brain 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. It hosts either male or female gonads. Kidneys, connected to circulatory system, expels waste to the bladder a tract.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn. Tougher Eggs.

Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and female.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Moves tail end of body side to side in a carangiforme motion (+1 Swim Speed).

External Features: Fish-Shaped Body (0NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Carangiforme). Dark Pigmentation (2NP, +3 UV Resistance). Scales (4NP, +0.5 Toughness, +0.2 Speed). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Pectoral Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.2 Walk Speed, -0.2 Swim Speed, +Paddling, +Crawling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Electroreceptors (2NP, +1 Electroreception). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Teeth (4NP, +1 Sharpness, -0.5 Filtration). Olfactory Receptors (2NP, +2 Smell). Pinhole Eyes (2NP, +1 Sight, +Binocular Vision). Caudal Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Carangiform). Spines (4NP, +1 Sharpness, -0.2 Swim Speed).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Closed Circulatory System w/ heart (21NP, +Large-Body Circulation, +2 Stamina). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (18NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination). Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy). Gonads (7NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation). Kidney (11NP, +Liquid Excretion, +Osmoregulation). Bladder (4NP, +Urine Storage). Cartilage Skull (4NP, +1 Toughness). Cartilage Jaw (5NP, +1 Dexterity, +1 Pierce Strength). Cartilage Vertebrae (10NP, +1 Toughness, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +1 Swim Agility, +1 Walk Agility). Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, +"Migmachordatix" Toxin).

Temporal Range: R. 239 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: One Estuary in Olympia

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Protichthys salmacidus

Classification: Protichtysinae (sf), Sanicthyopsidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle