Tubomorphii

## Tubomorphii primus

**Info**

Status: NT

Temporal Range: R.140 - Present (Gammavian Stage of the Atroxian)

Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder

Size: 10cm

Nutritional Worth:

Predecessor: Reumaplasmus fecundus

Classification: Tubomorphiinae (sf), Reumaplasmusidae (f), Ciliaphora (o), Poriferia (c), Porifera (p)

Perception: N/A

Latest Mutations: Larvae, Tube-Shaped

Info: This is a very simple sponge.

Intelligence / Behaviour: N/A

External Features: The amorphous, blue-pigmented body is punctuated by numerous pores.

Internal Features: The body is supported by a layer of mesoglea contains archeocytes. A hollow in the middle is lined with cilia.

Discoverer: StealthStyle

**Stats**

Nutritional Worth: (1.1 x 10 =) 15NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 9NP / 14NP

Physical Stats: Support = 0.5, UV Resistance = Weak, Filtration = 2

Systemic Stats: Circulation = 1, Excretion = 1, Immune System = 1

Abilities: None

Perception: N/A

Locomotion Type: N/A

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

Castes/Phases: Larvae.

Intelligence / Behaviour: N/A

External Features: The tube-shaped, blue-pigmented (3NP, +Weak UV Resistance) body is punctuated by numerous pores (+1 Filtration, +1 Circulation, +1 Excretion).

Internal Features: The body is supported by a layer of mesoglea (6NP, +0.5 Support) and contains archeocytes (1NP, +1 Immune System). A hollow in the middle is lined with cilia (1NP, +1 Filtration).

## Tubomorphii tubomorphii

**Info**

Status: NT

Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Oliverian)

Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder

Size: 15cm

Nutritional Worth:

Predecessor: Tubomorphii primus

Classification: Tubomorphiinae (sf), Reumaplasmusidae (f), Ciliaphora (o), Poriferia (c), Porifera (p)

Perception: N/A

Latest Mutations: Bigger

Info: This is a very simple sponge.

Intelligence / Behaviour: N/A

External Features: The tube-shaped, blue-pigmented body is punctuated by numerous pores.

Internal Features: The body is supported by a layer of mesoglea contains archeocytes. A hollow in the middle is lined with cilia.

Discoverer: StealthStyle

**Stats**

Nutritional Worth: (1 x 15 =) 15NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 9NP / 14NP

Physical Stats: Support = 0.5, UV Resistance = Weak, Filtration = 2

Systemic Stats: Circulation = 1, Excretion = 1

Abilities: None

Perception: N/A

Locomotion Type: N/A

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Intelligence / Behaviour: N/A

External Features: The tube-shaped, blue-pigmented (3NP, +Weak UV Resistance) body is punctuated by numerous pores (+1 Filtration, +1 Circulation, +1 Excretion).

Internal Features: The body is supported by a layer of mesoglea (6NP, +0.5 Support). A hollow in the middle is lined with cilia (1NP, +1 Filtration).

## Tubomorphii tropicae

Latest Mutations: Tropical Tolerance

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder

Size: 10cm (length)

Nutritional Need: (16/10) x (4/10) = 1.1NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 1.1NP

Abilities: Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid.Permeable Skin. Pressure Tolerance, Low. UV Resistance, Moderate.

Perception: None.

Stats: Digestion 1. Filtration 2. Immunity 2. Respiration 1. Stamina 1. Support 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Strokes cilia.

External Features: There is only one layer of tissue in the tubular body, coloured blue by structural colouration.

Internal Features: Inside each cell has a low pressure tolerant metabolism. Pores cross the entirety of the body, leading to a cilia-lined hollow in the middle which opens at the top. The gaps inside the body are filled with mesoglea containing archeocytes . Some cells digest food.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Sessile.

External Features: One Tissue Layer (+Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin, +Circulation). Blue Structural Colouration (2NP, +Moderate UV Resistance).

Internal Features: Low Pressure Metabolism (+Low Pressure Tolerance). Pores (+1 Filtration, +Circulation, +Liquid Excretion, +Solid Excretion). Skin (3NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Permeable Skin, +Cutaneous Respiration, +1 Immunity). Digesting Cells (5NP, +1 Digestion). Mesoglea (2NP, +0.5 Support). Archeocytes (5NP, +1 Immunity), Cilia (2NP, +1 Filtration).

Temporal Range: R.178 - Present (Nocturnus Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Uteenessa Ocean

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Tubomorphii primus

Classification: Tubomorphiinae (sf), Reumaplasmusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Tubomorphii communus

Latest Mutations: High Pressure Metabolism, Low Salinity Tolerance, Colonial

Status: U

Habitat: Deep Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder

Size: 15cm

Nutritional Need: 8 x 15/100 = ?NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: ? x 0.25 = ?NP per round (Needs to intake ?/0.7 = ?NP per round)/ ? x 0.8 = ?NP

Characteristics: Liquid Excretion. Solid Excretion. Only Works Underwater; sponge porous system.

Perception: N/A

Stats: Filtration 1. Support 1. UV Resistance 1. Viscosity 1. Warming -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: N/A

External Features: The blue body is crossed by a sponge porous system with a holdfast at the bottom.

Internal Features: A layer of mesoglea is between the body walls.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction

Castes/Phases: Hermaphrodotism

Locomotion: N/A

External Features: Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance, -0.5 Warming). Sponge Porous System (0NP, +1 Filtration, +Liquid Excretion, +Solid Excretion, +Only Works Underwater). Holdfast (3NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Mesoglea Layer (3NP, +1 Support).

Temporal Range: R. 194 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 4 years

Predecessor: Tubomorphii tubomorphii

Classification: ???

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## **Tubomorphii frigidum**

Latest Mutations: Low Salinity Tolerance, Lysozymes, Anti-freeze

This is a blue soft sponge that is flat like a pancake and encrusts rocks, living throughout the polar zone of the Uteenessa in the Northern Hemisphere. With it's freezing-water adaptations it is the first species to move into the returned polar water.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Freezing Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 10cm (width)

Nutritional Need: 33 x 10/100 = 9NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 9 x 0.25 = 2.3NP per round (Needs to intake 2.3/0.6 = 3.8NP per round)/ 9NP

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

Perception: N/A

Stats: Digestion 1 (100% meat, digests 60%). Immunity 1. Filtration 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Stamina 1. Support 1. UV Resistance 1. Viscosity 1. Warming -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: N/A

External Features: The blue body is crossed by a sponge porous system with a holdfast at the bottom.

Internal Features: Each cell contains piezolytes and lysozymes. It contains gonads. A layer of mesoglea is between the body walls and a spiral-shaped glycoprotein anti-freeze compound keeps it from freezing up.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance, -0.5 Warming). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Sponge Porous System (0NP, +1 Filtration, +1 Digestion, +Liquid Excretion, +Solid Excretion, +Only Works Underwater). Holdfast (3NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism) Mesoglea Layer (3NP, +1 Support). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation).

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

Distribution: Northern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 4 years

Predecessor: Tubomorphii primus

Classification: Tubomorphiinae (sf), Tubomorphiidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle