Ktrie

## Ktrie qualuntus

Latest Mutations: Stronger pincers = 6, More efficient herbivorous digestive system = 4, Air-breathing = 6, Antenna to sense valuable prey more easily = 5

Ktrie qualuntus was a hyperarthropod that was one of the first to live on land, rather than water, thanks to the fact that it had a tracheal system. It was a herbivore and had no predators here. It lived only at tropical and subtropical very humid locations in Tartarus and close to water. It also had stronger pincers that could pierce the calcified exoskeletons of other hyperarthropods, an even more coiled digestive tract and antennae with touch receptors.

Status: Extinct (Samadaran GRB)

Habitat: Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens close to water

Niche: Herbivore

Diet: Any plants it can get.

Size: 13cm (length - head to tail)

Nutritional Need: 198 x 13/100 = 25.7NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 25.7 x 0.25 = 6.4NP per round (Needs to intake 6.4/0.8 = 8NP per round)/ 25.7NP.

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater). Roll Up. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth). Touch 1.

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Meat, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 2. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.

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

External Features: It has a cylindrical body which has a calcified, calcite exoskeleton in fourteen plates with joint tissue in between. The skin underneath has blue melanin pigmentation. There is a pair of antennae with touch receptors. One pair of legs have chela on the end. In front of the mouth is a mandible. Around the mouth are a few chemoreceptors. On either side of the head is a camera eye with calcite lens that changes shape and has no blind spot and a typical apposition compound eye, which both contain blue and green cone cells. Not including the chelipeds, it has four pairs of paddle-lined legs, one to a segment. Behind that is five pairs of biramous, paddle-lined swimmerets, one to a segment. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome.

Internal Features: The body is segmented and contains fourteen segments. Spiracles lead to trachae. Blood vessels travel past every cell, carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a system of muscles. It has a sex-appropriate gonad and a large protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a stomach and highly coiled intestines. 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. A cerebrum has memory neurons.

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

Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and females.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Usually moves by paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.

External Features: Highly Jointed Calcified Exoskeleton (10NP, +2 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Respiration, -1 Stamina, +Moults, +Roll Up, -Cutaneous Respiration, -Permeable Skin, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Antennae (4NP). Touch Receptors (2NP, +1 Touch). Mandibles (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength, +1 Digestion, +1 Dexterity, +1 Reach). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eyes w/ blue and green cone cells (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision, +Binocular Vision, +Blue Perception, +Green Perception). Compound Eyes w/ blue and green cone cells (11NP, +1 Wide Vision, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision, +Blue Perception, +Green Perception). Long, Serrated Chela (5NP, +1 Dexterity, +3 Pierce Strength, +2 Reach, +1 Sharpness). Legs w/ paddles (5NP, +1 Walk Speed, +1 Jumping, -0.3 Swim Speed, +Walking, +Paddling). Paddle-Lined Swimmerets (5NP, +0.4 Swim Speed, +0.2 Walk Speed, +Paddling). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Trachea (7NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste).Double Closed Circulatory System (10NP, +3 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Caste Gonads (7NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilization). Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy). Large Nephridium (19NP, +Liquid Excretion, +Osmoregulation). Monogastric Digestive System w/ highly coiled intestines (19NP, +2.5 Meat Digestion, +2.5 Veg Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination). Memory Neurons (6NP, +1 Memory).

Temporal Range: R.227 - R.244 (Atrobocean to Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Tartarus

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Salcaedis corcillum

Classification: Ktrieinae (sf), Hydroambulidae (f)

Discoverer: Agenttine