Lepidoderes

## Lepidoderes immortalii

Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6
Scales become more flexible = 4
Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6

A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.

Status: Unlisted

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

Niche: Predator

Size: 6cm (length)

Nutritional Need: (184NP/10) x 7.5/10 = 13.8NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: (13.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.5NP / 13.8NP

Abilities: Air Space. Barrier Immune System. Bioluminescence. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Fatal Toxin. Gas Buoyancy. Liquid Excretion. Permeable Skin. Penetrates Hardness 1 (jaw). Ram Ventilation. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Strong UV Resistance.

Perception: Electroreception 1 (1 body length away, sideways field). Sight 1 (clear vision to the front, depth perception), Smell 1 (Detects smells).

Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 20% off). Filtration 0. Intelligence 1. Reflexes -1. Respiration 1. Sharpness 2. Stamina 2.5. Strength 1.5. Swim Speed 2.4. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. Walk Speed 0.7.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, smell for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.

External Features: The fish-shaped body has black melanin pigmentation in its

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skin. The mouth contains razor-sharp teeth and has a pair of olfactory receptors above it. There are also forwards facing eyes. Cycloid, deciduous scales cover from tail to where the head begins. A line of electroreceptors flanks the body. It has oval pectoral ray-fins and a semi-circular diphycercal caudal fin beneath the tail. At the base of the tail is a pair of spines. The whole of the body is covered in cycloid scales and blue autogenic photophores. Scales are not present in hatchlings.

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Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits line just behind the head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin is pumped by a two-chambered heart. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain with a memory lobe leads to a nerve cord with nerves running off like rungs on a ladder. The nerve cord is supported by a cartilage vertebrae. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder and below this are the testes in males and ova in females, with both in hermaphrodites.

Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.

Castes/Phases: Hatchling and Final Form.

Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Active. (20NP)

External Features: Fish-Shaped Body (+1 Swim Speed). Black melanin (2NP, Strong UV Resistance). Skin (2NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Barrier Immune System, +Permeable Skin, +Cutaneous Respiration). Mouth (+1 Filtration). Razor-Sharp Teeth (4NP, +2 Sharpness, -1 Filtration, Weapon). Olfactory Receptors (2NP, +1 Smell).
Eyes (7NP, +1 Sight). Deciduous, cycloid scales (4NP, +0.5 Toughness, +0.2 Swim Speed). Electroreceptors (2NP, +1 Electroreception). Pectoral Fins (4NP, +1 Agility, +0.2 Walk Speed, -0.2 Speed). Diphycercal Caudal Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Speed). Spines (4NP, +1 Sharpness, Weapon). Cycloid Scales (4NP, +0.5 Toughness, +0.2 Swim Speed, +Deciduous Scales). Photophores (9NP, +Bioluminescence).

Internal Features: Migmachordatix Toxin Gland (7NP, Fatal Toxin). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, Ram Ventilation). Closed Circulatory System (11NP, Circulation, +0.5 Stamina). Heart (11NP, +1 Stamina). Nephridium (7NP, Liquid Excretion). Longitudinal Muscles (3NP, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Strength, Allows Crawling). Stomach (11NP, +1 Digestion, Can Break Down Multicellular Matter, Can Digest Meat). Intestines (7NP, +1 Digestion, Solid Excretion). Brain and nerve network with memory lobe (30NP, +1 Coordination, +1 Intelligence, +Short-Term Memory). Cartilage Jaw (4NP, Penetrates Hardness 1). Cartilage Vertebrae (4NP, +1 Support, +1 Strength). Swim Bladder Without Duct (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, Gas Buoyancy, Air Space). Testes (7NP). Ova (7NP).

Temporal Range: R.193 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Northern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Pigocauda corallus

Classification: Pigocaudinae (sf), Sanicthyopsidae (f)

Discoverer: Immortal

## Lepidoderes carvus

Latest Mutations: Head armour = 2, Sexes = 3, Remove toxin glands = 6

This is a predatory proto-fish that lives in the Temperate Ocean of the Southern Hemisphere. It's black, has bioluminescent spots all over it and sharp fangs. It mostly preys on Elinopterus. The hatchlings have no scales. In this species, the scales never grow in on the head and it remains soft their entire lives, providing a target for prey like Cerceps cerceps. They also have no toxin glands, unlike their relatives, which reduces the energy need but with less armour, this combination has lead to this species being not very successful.

Status: U

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean

Niche: Predator

Size: 6cm (length)

Nutritional Need: 178 x 8/100 = 14.2NP HATCHLINGS: 174.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 14.2 x 0.25 = 3.6NP per round (Needs to intake 3.6/0.8 = 4.5NP per round)/ 14.2 x 0.9 = 12.8NP

Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Bioluminsecence. Decidious Scales. Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Only Works Underwater; gills. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Passive Electroreception. Permeable Skin. Ram Ventilation. Startle. Stationary Respiration. Solid Excretion. HATCHLINGS: No Decidious Scales.

Perception: Sight 2 (Sees clearly up to 5m away from the front). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (detects odour traces up to 1m away from the front).

Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2. Immunity 2. Filtration 0.5. (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Memory 1. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2. Sharpness 2. Stamina 3. Strength 2. Support 1. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 3.5. Toughness 0 (1 on body except the head, 2 in spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7. HATCHLINGS: Toughness 0. Swim Speed 3.3.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = carangiform. When tired = rest. Sense food right in front = bite with mouth. Mating hormones = move around. Own species hormones w/ mating hormones = reproduce.

External Features: The skin of the tapering, fairly stream-lined body is covered in decidious, cycloid scales up to the head with black melanin pigmentation and blue autogenic photophores. The head has a mouth with razor sharp teeth and venomous fangs. There are also a pair of forward-facing camera eyes and olfactory receptors. It has a pair of pectoral fins and a line of electroreceptors along the flank. At the end of the body is a dicypheral caudal fin as a semicircle below the tail and spines at its base. Hatchlings are born without scales.

Internal Features: Behind the head are three gill slits. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. It has a closed circulatory system. There are muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. It has a swim bladder, gonads and a nephridium. Ganglia in the head connect to a single dorsal nerve cord, protected by a cartilage vertebrae. A cerebrum contains memory neurons.

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

Castes/Phases: Hatchling > (25%) Adult Form. Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Carangiform (+1 Swim Speed).

External Features: Quite Streamlined, Tapering Body (+1 Swim Speed, +Carangiform, +Anguillaform). Deciduous, Cycloid Scales (4NP, +1 Toughness, +0.2 Swim Speed, +Decidious Scales, Not in Hatchlings). Dark Pigmentation (2NP, +3 UV Resistance). Photophores (5NP, +Bioluminescence, +Startle). Pectoral Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.2 Walk Speed, -0.2 Swim Speed, +Paddling, +Crawling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin, +Stationary Respiration). Electroreceptors (2NP, +1 Electroreception). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Sharp Teeth (4NP, +2 Sharpness, -0.5 Filtration). Olfactory Receptors (2NP, +1 Smell). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Binocular Vision). Caudal Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Carangiform). Spines (4NP, +1 Sharpness).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Oral Jaw (5NP, +1 Dexterity, +1 Pierce Strength). Closed Circulatory System (10NP, +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 w/ Memory Neurons (26NP, +2 Coordination, +1 Memory, +Stimulus Response). Cartilage Vertebrae (10NP, +1 Toughness, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +1 Swim Agility, +1 Walk Agility). Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilisation). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion).

Temporal Range: R. 205 - Present (Agentian Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Northern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Lepidoderes immortalii

Classification:

Discoverer: ImmortalDragon