Massosomus

## Massosomus primus

Latest Mutations: Lose Notochord, Camera Eye

This animal has a long body with oncopods and no notochord that allows it to move effectively through the narrow crevices in rocks where it makes it's home. It also has true eyes. It uses it's wide jaws to capture prey around it's rocky hiding places. The predator lives in the tropical ocean.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Predator

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 10cm (length - jaws to end)

Nutritional Need: 153 x 10/100 = 15.3NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 15.3 x 0.25 = 3.8NP per round (Needs to intake 3.8/0.6 = 6.3NP per round) / 15.3 x 0.9 = 13.7NP

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

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

Stats: Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1. Immunity 2. Filtration 1. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 2. Slipperiness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Swim Speed 0.5. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.5.

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 elongated body has yellow carotenoid pigmentation in the skin and underneath the body is the numerous oncopods. Mucus glands make it slimy. The wide mouth at the front has sharp teeth and chemoreceptors and is surrounded by blue autogenic photophores. On top of the head is a pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot.

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. There are also gonads.

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

Castes/Phases: Hermaphrodites.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking.

External Features: Elongated Body (0NP, +1 Tunnelling). Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Oncopods (3NP, +1 Walk Speed, +Walking). Mucus Glands (7NP, +1 Slipperiness). Wide Mouth (0NP, +1.5 Filtration). Sharp Teeth (4NP, +2 Sharpness, -0.5 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Photophores (5NP, +Bioluminescence, +Startle). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision).

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, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation).

Temporal Range: R.239 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Malopus glabus

Classification: Macromorphiinae (sf), Megalognathusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle