Eoceras

## Eoceras gracilis

Latest Mutations: Lose Notochord, Lighter Shell

This is a sort of cephalopod with a long shell produced by a mantle. It rests against the bottom of the ocean, using its tentacles to filter and scoot around with its hyponome. This species has lost the notochord because it has a shell already for support, which is also lighter and more manouvreable.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Shallows (Upper 50m)

Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder

Size: 15cm (length)

Nutritional Need: 153 x 15/100 = 23NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 23 x 0.25 = 5.8NP per round (Needs to intake 5.8/0.7 = 8.3NP per round)/ 23 x 0.8 = 18NP

Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Anti-Freeze. Cutaneous Respiration. Food Storage. Inflexible. Intolerant of more than 50m deep. Liquid Excretion. Only Works Underwater; gills and hyponome. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Stationary Respiration. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Sight 2 (see clearly 5m on either side, monocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (detects chemicals 5m from mouth).

Stats: Buoyancy 0.5. Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 2.5. Evolution 1. Filtration 3. Immunity 2. Respiration 3. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 3. Swim Agility 1.2. Swim Speed 0. (Toughness 3 = Shell). UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed -0.3.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = hyponome boost. Tiredness = rest. Masticephalus chemicals = use cirri to filter water into mouth. Mating hormones = move around. Coliteuthis carnivorus chemicals w/ mating hormones = reproduce.

External Features: At the front is the many thread-bearing cirri, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a conical shell on the back, made of calcite. This is secreted by the mantle, which is a layer on the skin. The skin contains red melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on stalks through holes in the shell. Flaps of skin line the sides. At the back of the shell is a hyponome, capable of swivelling.

Internal Features: The hyponome pumps water into the mantle cavity, which contains the six pairs of gills and the phragmocone with a narrow siphuncle. A crop lays behind the mouth. The body has a hemoacoel and a few small blood vessels from the gills and saccate metanephridium. It has sex-appropriate gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a stomach attached to the coiled intestine. From the ganglia in head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilization. 1,000 eggs per spawning. Tough eggs.

Castes/Phases: Sexes.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Undulation, Hyponome Boosting.

External Features: Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Shell (11NP, +3 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Buoyancy, -1 Swim Speed, -1 Swim Agility, -1 Walk Speed, +Inflexible, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Flaps (2NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Undulation). Swivelling Hyponome (7NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.5 Swim Speed, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, -Ram Ventilation, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater). Thread-Bearing Cirri (7NP, +2 Filtration).

Internal Features: Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Crop (4NP, +Food Storage). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1.5 Meat Digestion, +1.5 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response). Notochord (4NP, +1 Support). Phragmocone (4NP, +1.5 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than 50m deep). Gonads (7NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation).

Temporal Range: R. 211 - Present (Agentian Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Delphi

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Pteroceras pteroceras

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Eoceras pulchellus

Latest Mutations: Lose lysozymes, Lose Anti-Freeze

This is a cephalopod crawling around the upper 50m of the seas around Delphi, filtering with it's tentacles, almost invulnerable living in its hard shell. It has no lysozymes or anti-freeze.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 15cm (length - front to back)

Nutritional Need: 135 x 15/100 = 20.3NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.3 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.65 = 7.8NP per round)/ 20.3 x 0.8 = 16.2NP

Abilities: Adjustable Buoyancy. Exothermic. Inflexible. Intolerant of more than 50m deep. Food Storage. Liquid Excretion. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (detects chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 2 (see clearly 5m on either side, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy 0.5. Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 1.5 (100% Meat, Digests 65%). Evolution 1. Filtration 3. Immunity 2. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 0. Swim Speed 1. Toughness 0 (3 - Shell). UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: At the front are the six thread-bearing cirri, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a lightweight, conical shell on the back, made of calcite. This is secreted by the mantle, which is a layer on the skin. The skin contains red melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on stalks through holes in the shell. Flaps of skin line the sides. At the back of the shell is a hyponome, capable of swivelling.

Internal Features: Each cell contains piezolytes. The hyponome pumps water into the mantle cavity, which contains the six pairs of gills and the phragmocone with a narrow siphuncle. A crop lays behind the mouth. The body has a circuit of blood vessels pumped by a dorsal vessel which pass the gills and saccate metanephridium. It has gonads in the lower part of the body and muscles across the body. There is a stomach attached to the coiled intestine. From the ganglia in the head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilization. 1,000 eggs per spawning. Tougher Eggs.

Castes/Phases: Sexes.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Hyponome Boosting, Undulation.

External Features: Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Shell (11NP, +3 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Buoyancy, -1 Swim Speed, -1 Swim Agility, -1 Walk Speed, +Inflexible, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Many Cirri w/ threads (7NP, +2 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Swivelling Hyponome (7NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.5 Swim Speed, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, -Ram Ventilation, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater). Flaps (2NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Undulation).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Phragmocone (4NP, +1.5 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than 50m deep). Crop (4NP, +Food Storage). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Gonads (7NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1.5 Meat Digestion, +1.5 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response).

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

Distribution: Delphi

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Eoceras gracilis

Classification: Coliteuthisinae (sf), Nimiastomaidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle