Platysomus

**Platysomus uncus**

Latest Mutations: Flattened, Hooks

A flattened animal that lives in the sediment, prey wandering overhead will be snapped up into a wide mouth with grasping hooks and sharp teeth.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Predator

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 9cm (length - jaws to end)

Nutritional Need: 158 x 9/100 = 15.6NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 15.6 x 0.25 = 3.9NP per round (Needs to intake 1.9/0.6 = 6.5NP per round) / 15.6 x 0.9 = 14NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Permeable Skin. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Small-Body Circulation. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (Detects chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 2 (Clear images for 5m from front, monocular vision).

Stats: Burrowing 1. Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Immunity 2. Filtration 1. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 2. Swim Agility 1. Swim Stability 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 0.3. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 0.7.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with teeth. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: The flattened body has sandy brown melanin pigmentation in the skin. The wide mouth at the front has sharp teeth, protruding hooks and chemoreceptors and is surrounded by blue autogenic photophores. On top of the head is an eye. It has pectoral fins and lines of membranes.

Internal Features: Cells contain lysozymes and piezolytes. A hemacoel circulates blood, helped by a ventral vessel, and the blood contains anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol. There are a few small blood vessels passing the gills and metanephridium. The head houses a cartilage jaw. There is a muscular system and a stomach that leads to intestines. Ganglion in the head connect to a nerve cord, protected by a notochord. There are also gonads.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking.

External Features: Flattened (+1 Burrowing). Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Wide Mouth (0NP, +1.5 Filtration). Sharp Teeth (4NP, +2 Sharpness, -0.5 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Membranes (2NP, +1 Swim Stability). Pectoral Fins (4NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.2 Walk Speed, -0.2 Swim Speed).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Open Circulatory System w/ Pump Vessel (10NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +2 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Oral Jaw (5NP, +1 Dexterity, +1 Pierce Strength). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination). Notochord (4NP, +1 Support). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation).

Temporal Range: R.253 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Northern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Polyphemiusia troglodytes

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle