Zuckeria

## Zuckeria zuckeria

Latest Mutations: Lose Notochord

Hidden within a shell, an animal has very little need for something like a notochord and so Zuckeria has lost it to become more efficient. Other than that, it is similar to its predecessor, secreting a cap-shaped shell around its body and grazing on algae with a radula. It's hard shell means it has no current predators.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean

Niche: Herbivore

Size: 5cm (length)

Nutritional Need: (125NP/10) x (5/10) = 2NP?

Food / Oxygen Requirement: (2 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 1NP / 2NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Barrier Immune System. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Liquid Excretion. Moderate UV Resistance. Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (Senses chemicals 5m away). Sight 1 (clear sight to the sides).

Stats: Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (can break down multicellular matter, 10% off). Filtration 1. Inflexibility 3. Intelligence 1. Respiration 2. Stamina 3. Strength 0.5. Support 0.5. Toughness 3. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed 0.5

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

External Features: It has a cylindrical body covered almost completely covered on the back by a calcium carbonate shell with red pigmentation. It has a thin skin layer. A mouth with chemoreceptors and two cirri along with a pair of stalks with an eye on each side are on the head. A rough radula is housed in the mouth. There are mucus glands on the underside of the muscular foot which takes up the ventral side.

Internal Features: Three gill slits sit each side of the head. There is a space in the shell for the snail to retreat into. Muscles line each side of the body. 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 head connects to one nerve cords which branches into a network of nerves. 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.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Muscular Foot. Active (20NP).

External Features: Red pigments (2NP, +Moderate UV Resistance). Skin (3NP, +Permeable Skin, +Cutaneous Respiration, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Barrier Immune System). Mouth (+1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Eyes (7NP, +1 Sight). Cirri (4NP). Conical Thick Calcite Shell (10NP, +3 Toughness, +3 Inflexibility, -1 Swim Speed). Muscular Foot (3NP, +0.5 Walk Speed). Viscous Mucus Glands (6NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina). Open Circulatory System (6NP, +Circulation, +1 Stamina). Radula (4NP). Anti-Freeze (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (7NP, + Liquid Excretion). Longitudinal Muscles (3NP, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Strength, Allows Crawling). Stomach (10NP, +1 Digestion, +Can Break Down Multicellular Matter, +Digest Plant Matter). Intestines (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Solid Excretion). Brain and nerve network (22NP, +1 Coordination, +1 Intelligence). Testes (5NP). Ova (5NP).

Temporal Range: R.190 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Laevgastus limpus

Classification: Traxoglossusinae (sf), Enapodusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle