Compcyclus

## Compcyclus repus

Latest Mutations: Round Shell, Pump Vessel, Retractable Cirri and Eyestalks

If it's ancestors are the limpets of Ezta, this is the snail of Ezta, or at least a primitive one. The shell is round and only covers part of the back, except when it retreats inside, including retractable cirri and eyestalks. This slow but armoured species is a common herbivore of the tropical ocean.

Status: LC

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Herbivore

Size: 5cm

Nutritional Need: 159 x 5/100 = 8NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 8 x 0.25 = 2NP per round (Needs to intake 2/0.7 = 2.9NP per round)/ 8 x 0.9 = 7.2NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Inflexible. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Only Works Underwater; gills. Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 2 (clearly up to 5m on either side, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy -1. Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 2 (100% Cellulose, Digests 70%). Filtration 1 (5/4 = 1.3x1 = 1.3). Immunity 2. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2 (10% off, Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Agility -0.5. Swim Speed -0.5. Toughness 3. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = hide in shell. Move signal = wave motion. When tired = rest. Algae chemicals = use scrape. Mating hormones = move around. ??? chemicals w/ mating hormones = reproduce.

External Features: The cylindrical body has skin with red melanin pigmentation. At the front are two retractable cirri, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a pair of camera eyes with a calcite lens that changes shape with no blind spot on retractable stalks, looking out to the sides. There are three gill slits either side of its head. It has a calcite, round shell on its back. The shell has a body space. There is a muscular foot with a mucus gland on it below.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. There is a radula in its mouth. The body has a hemacoel with a dorsal vessel and a few small blood vessels from the gills and saccate metanephridium. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. It has gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. From the ganglia in head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

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

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Wave Motion.

External Features: Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Snail Shell (11NP, +3 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +1 Support, -1 Buoyancy, -0.5 Swim Speed, -0.5 Swim Agility, -0.5 Walk Speed, +Inflexible, +Retreat Into Self, -Wriggling). Muscular Foot (3NP, +0.5 Walk Speed, +1 Tunnelling, +Wave Motion). Viscous Mucus Gland (7NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Radula (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength, +1 Sharpness). Open Circulatory System w/ Pump Vessel (10NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +2 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Cellulase Monogastric Digestive System (18NP, +1 Cellulose Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation).

Temporal Range: R. 211 - Present (Agentian Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Zuckeria zuckeria

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle