Amniotyrannus

## Amniotyrannus grypus

Latest Mutations: Worm-Shaped

This worm-shaped animal is a threat to all soft eggs. It has a sharp beak for piercing the outer membranes while holding it in place with grasping spines. Finally, a sucking tube comes out to slurp up the liquidy contents of the egg.

Status: LC

Habitat: Temperate Ocean

Niche: Egg Predator

Size: 6mm

Nutritional Need: 130 x 0.3/100 = 0.4NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 0.4 x 0.25 = 0.1NP per round (Needs to intake 0.1/0.7 = 0.1NP per round)/ 0.4 x 0.9 = 0.4NP

Abilities: Air Space. Anti-Freeze. Buoyancy. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Liquid Excretion. Liquid Sucking. Low Pressure Tolerance. Medium UV Resistance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Small-Body Circulation. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 0.5. Sight 0.5.

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 0. Immunity 2. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration, 90%). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Support 1. Tunnelling 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

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

External Features: It has a worm-shaped body. The skin has blue irridiphore pigmentation. It has a mouth with a sharp beak that contains a sucking tube, along with grasping spines, and around it are a few chemoreceptors. On either side of the head is two pairs of pinhole eyes. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome.

Internal Features: 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 a gonad and a protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered oily swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a monogastric digestive system. A gland releases a foul fluid into the body fluids. 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: Active (20NP). Paddling, Hyponome Boosting. Peristalsis.

External Features: Worm-Shaped Body (0NP, +1 Tunnelling). Skin (5NP, +0.5 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +0.5 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigments (2.5NP, +Medium UV Resistance). Beak (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength). Sucking Tube (5NP, +Liquid Sucking). Grasping Spines (5NP, +1 Dexterity). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2.5NP, +0.5 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eye (2.5NP, +0.5 Sight). Fan Tail (5NP, +1 Swim Speed). Swivelling Hyponome (5NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +1 Respiration, +0.2 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Hyponome Boosting).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (2.5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (2.5NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Open Circulatory System (10NP, +2 Stamina, +Small-Body Circulation. Heart (5NP, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2.5NP, +Anti-Freeze). Hydrostatic Skeleton (10NP, +0.5 Tunnelling, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Strength). Gonads (5NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +External Fertilisation). Swim Bladder (5NP, +Buoyancy, +Air Space). Nephridium (5NP, +Liquid Excretion). Monogastric Digestive System (10NP, +0.5 Meat Digestion, +0.5 Veg Digestion, +0.5 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Foul Fluid Gland (5NP, +Foul Taste). Centralised Nervous System (10NP, +2 Coordination).

Temporal Range: R. 271 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Ostrorhynchus strictus

Classification: New

Discoverer: StealthStyle