Petrovermes

## Petrovermes versifilius

Latest Mutations: Lose Swim Bladder, Timed Breeding, Elongated

Petrovermes versifilius is a blue, elongated, cylindrical animal that lives in tunnels carved into rock by acid. It sticks to the end of the rock with a sticky pad and lives it's life there, filtering passing food with cirri. It has lost it's swim bladder as a result of it's stationary lifestyle and is longer and thinner to fit in the tunnels. Breeding all at once during Late Spring helps to overcome the difficulties of not being able to approach mates. It lives in the upper 500m of the temperate ocean in the Southern Hemisphere.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temporate Ocean

Niche: Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 15cm (length - cirri to end)

Nutritional Need: 115 x 7.5/100 = 8.6NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 8.6 x 0.25 = 2.2NP per round (Needs to intake 2.2/0.6 = 3NP per round) / 8.6NP \*

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. "Entaopsin" Toxin. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth).

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1. Immunity 2. Filtration 2.5. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Stamina 2. Strength 0.5. Support 1. Tunnelling 2. UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Wait for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Retreat into burrow. 5. Maturity and Late Spring > Reproduce.

External Features: The elongated, cylindrical body has skin with blue melanin pigment and begins with a mouth surrounded by long cirri and chemoreceptors. At the end of the bodies an acid-producing gland and a holdfast.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. A gland on the skin secretes a foul fluid and a neurotoxin. The body has a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the gills and a protonephridium. The blood is blue-green because it contains hemocyanin as well as an anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide. There is a system of muscles across the body. On the lower half of the body are gonads. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Elongated Body (0NP, +1 Tunnelling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Long Cirri (7NP, +1.5 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Acid Gland (7NP). Holdfast (2NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein 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). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, +"Entaopsin" Toxin).

Temporal Range: R.221 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Neoxyskulus grammeri

Classification: Oxyskulusinae (sf), Entaopsidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## **Petrovermes tropicae**

Latest Mutations: Tropical Tolerance, Lose Lysozynes, Lose Anti Freeze (heart)

Petrovermes versifilius is a blue, elongated, cylindrical animal that lives in tunnels carved into rock by acid. It sticks to the end of the rock with a sticky pad and lives it's life there, filtering passing food with cirri. It has lost it's swim bladder as a result of it's stationary lifestyle and is longer and thinner to fit in the tunnels. Breeding all at once during Late Spring helps to overcome the difficulties of not being able to approach mates. It lives in the upper 500m of the temperate ocean in the Southern Hemisphere.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder

Size: 15cm (length)

Nutritional Need: 95 x 15/100 = 14.3NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 14.3 x 0.25 = 3.6NP per round (Need to intake 3.6/0.65 = 5.5NP per round) / 14.3NP

Abilities: Foul Taste. Liquid Excretion. Medium UV Resistance. Permeable Skin. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Small-Body Circulation. Solid Excretion. Toxin.

Perception: Chemoreception 1.

Stats: Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 0.5. (100% Meat, 65%). Filtration 2. Immunity 1. Stamina 2.5. Strength 0.5. Support 0.5. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Tunnelling 0.5. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > N/A. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Hide in tunnel. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: The elongated, cylindrical body has skin with blue melanin pigment and begins with a mouth surrounded by long cirri and chemoreceptors. At the end of the bodies an acid-producing gland and a holdfast.

Internal Features: Each cell contains piezolytes. A gland on the skin secretes a foul fluid and a neurotoxin. The body has a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the gills and a protonephridium. The blood is blue-green because it contains hemocyanin. There is a system of muscles across the body. On the lower half of the body are gonads. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Peristalsis.

External Features: Worm-Shaped (0NP, +1 Tunnelling). Skin (5NP, +0.5 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +0.5 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigments (2.5NP, +Medium UV Resistance). Cirri x2 (10NP, +1 Filtration, +1 Dexterity). Chemoreceptors (2.5NP, +1 Chemoreception). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Acid Gland (5NP). Holdfast (5NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Hydrostatic Skeleton (10NP, +0.5 Tunnelling, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Strength). Open Circulatory System (10NP, +2 Stamina, +Small-Body Circulation). Gonads (5NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation). Monogastric Digestive System (10NP, +0.5 Meat Digestion, +0.5 Veg Digestion, +0.5 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Nephridium (5NP, +Liquid Excretion). Toxin Gland (5NP, +Toxin). Foul Fluid Gland (5NP, +Foul Taste). Centralised Nervous System (10NP, +2 Coordination).

Temporal Range: R. 274 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Predecessor: Petrovermes versifilius

Classification:

Lifespan: 1 year

Discoverer: StealthStyle