Coelotheca

## Coelotheca borealis

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Coelotheca borealis is a benthic filter-feeder that sucks in water through its entrance like a tunicate. This blue species lives along the tropical ocean floor.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Shallows

Niche: Benthic Filter Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 7cm (height)

Nutritional Need: 119 x 7/100 = 8.3NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 8.3 x 0.25 = 2.1NP per round (Needs to intake 2.1/0.7 = 3NP per round)/ 8.3NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Buccal Pumping. "Entaopsin Toxin". Foul Taste. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Solid Excretion.

Perception: Sight 1 (sees blurrily from the sides, monocular vision, and from the front, binocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth).

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Filtration 3. Immunity 2. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Stamina 2. Strength 1. Suction 0.5. Support 1. Toughness 1. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Pump water into body. 2. Tired > Rest. 3. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: It has a cylindrical body. The skin has blue irridiphore pigmentation. It has a mouth with cirri and around it are a few chemoreceptors. On the side of the head is a pair of pinhole eyes are front and a pair at the back. There is an exit hole near to the mouth.

Internal Features: There is a muscular pharynx. There is a big opening in the middle covered in a mucus net. It has a hemocoel carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a hydrostatic skeleton. It has gonads and a protonephridium. There is a monogastric digestive system. A gland releases a foul fluid into the body fluids and another releases toxins. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off.

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

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Tunic (4NP, +1 Toughness, +1 Support). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight, +Binocular Vision, +Monocular Vision).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Pharyngeal Muscles (7NP, +0.5 Suction, +0.5 Filtration, +Buccal Pumping). Mucus Net (2NP, +0.5 Filtration). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilization). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion, +Osmoregulation). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, +"Entaopsin Toxin"). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control).

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

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Tunisoma tunisoma

Classification: Tunisominae (sf), Diplostomidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle