Lucasia

## Lucasia astatheana

Latest Mutations: Improved Smell, Heart

Status: U

Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean

Niche: Predator

Size: 5cm

Nutritional Need: 176 x 0.4/100 = ?NP

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

Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Bioluminescence. Intolerant of more than Low Pressure. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Migmachordatix Toxin. Only Works Underwater; gills. Passive Electroreception. Permeable Skin. Ram Ventilation. Startle. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Electroreception 2 (detects movement at sides). Smell 2 (Odours 5m away from mouth). Sight 1 (Sees blurrily above, binocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 2. Digestion 2. Immunity 1. Filtration 0.5. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 1. Sharpness 2. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 2.5. Toughness 1. UV Resistance 3. Walk Speed 0.7. Warming 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Constantly = move around. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = carangiform. When tired = rest. Sense ??? right in front = bite down. Mating hormones = move around. Anazitonta anazitonta w/ mating hormones = reproduce.

External Features: The tapering body is slightly streamlined and black melanin pigments are in the skin as well as blue bacteriogenic photophores. It is also covered in cycloid scales. The circular mouth has sharp teeth and olfactory receptors. On top of the head is a pair of pinhole eyes. Electroreceptors run along the flanks. It has a pair of pectoral fins, spines at the base of the tail and a rounded, homocercal caudal fun underneath the tail.

Internal Features: Behind the head are three gill slits. Blood vessels run across the body, pumped by a heart. There are muscles across the body. There is a gland which releases Migmachordatix Toxin into the spines. The mouth has a cartilage jaw. The stomach leads into the intestine. It has a swim bladder, gonads and a nephridium. Ganglia in the head connect to a single dorsal nerve cord, shielded by a cartilage vertebrae.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction.

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Carangiform.

External Features: Slightly Streamlined (0NP, +1 Swim Speed). Dark Pigmentation (2NP, +3 UV Resistance, +1 Warming). Pectoral Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.2 Walk Speed, -0.2 Swim Speed, +Paddling, +Crawling). Caudal Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Carangiform, +Thunniform). Spines (4NP, +1 Sharpness). Cycloid Scales (4NP, +1 Toughness, +0.2 Swim Speed, -1 Respiration, -1 Stamina, Cutaneous Respiration). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Electroreceptors (2NP, +2 Electroreception, +Passive Electroreception). Photophores (5NP, +Bioluminescence, +Startle). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Teeth (4NP, +2 Sharpness, -0.5 Filtration). Olfactory Receptors (2NP, +2 Smell). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight, +Binocular Vision).

Internal Features: Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, +"Migmachordatix Toxin"). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Closed Circulatory System (10NP, +Large-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Heart (11NP, +1 Stamina). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Cartilage Vertebrae (10NP, +1 Support, +1 Swim Agility). Oral Jaw (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength). Stomach (7NP, +1 Digestion). Intestine (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response). Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion).

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

Distribution: Southern

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Anazitonta anazitonta

Classification: Sanicthyopsinae (sf), Sanicthyopsidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle