Massochilus

## Massochilus tristus

Latest Mutations: Scoop Proboscis

In front of this scute-armoured worm is a distinguished proboscis that is in a scoop-shape which can be used to capture detritus and put it in the mouth. It lives in the sediment below temperate ocean in the Southern Hemisphere.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean

Niche: Sediment Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 14cm (length - proboscis to end)

Nutritional Need: 141 x 7/100 = 9.9NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 9.9 x 0.25 = 2.5NP per round (Needs to intake 2.5/0.6 = 4.2NP per round) / 9.9NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoregulation (Freshwater and Brackish Tolerance). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (5m from mouth). Sight 1 (Blurry Images from front, binocular vision, and side, monocular vision).

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Immunity 2. Filtration 2. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 1. Toughness 0.5. Tunnelling 2.5. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with mouth. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Move away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce. 6. Light > head into darkness.

External Features: The skin of the elongated body contains blue carotenoid pigments and is coated in chaetae and scutes. It has a mouth on a scoop-shaped proboscis extending out from the rest of the body, which is surrounded by chemoreceptors. The head has four pinhole eyes at the front and side of the head.

Internal Features: Cells contain lysozymes and piezolytes. Blood vessels circulate around, helped by a heart, and the blood contains an anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide. The body is largely made up of a hydrostatic skeleton and a monogastric digestive system. Ganglion in the head connect to a dual dorsal nerve cord. There is also a large nephridium, gonads and a foul fluid gland.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Peristalsis.

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Elongated Body (0NP, +1 Tunnelling). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Chaetae (3NP, +1 Tunnelling). Scoop Proboscis (6NP, +1 Filtration, +1 Reach). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eyes (2NP, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision, +Binocular Vision). Scutes (4NP, +0.5 Toughness, -0.5 Tunnelling).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Closed Circulatory System w/ Heart (21NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste).

Temporal Range: R.234 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Scutoskulus arditi

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## **Massochilus tropicae**

Latest Mutations: Tropical Tolerance

In front of this scute-armoured worm is a distinguished proboscis that is in a scoop-shape which can be used to capture detritus and put it in the mouth. It lives in the sediment below temperate ocean in the Southern Hemisphere.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Temperate Ocean

Niche: Sediment Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 14cm (length - cirri to end)

Nutritional Need: 127.5 x 14/100 = 17.9NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 17.9 x 0.25 = 4.5NP per round (Needs to intake 4.5/0.65 = 6.9NP per round) / 17.9NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Circulation, Large-Body. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Pressure Tolerance, High. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 1. Sight 0.5.

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 0.5. (100% Meat, 65%). Filtration 1.5. Immunity 1. Reach 0.5. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Stamina 3.5. Strength 0.5. Support 0.5. Tunnelling 2. Toughness 1.5. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with mouth. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Move away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce. 6. Light > head into darkness.

External Features: The skin of the elongated body contains blue carotenoid pigments and is coated in chaetae and scutes. It has a mouth on a scoop-shaped proboscis extending out from the rest of the body, which is surrounded by chemoreceptors. The head has four pinhole eyes at the front and side of the head.

Internal Features: Cells contain lysozymes and piezolytes. Blood vessels circulate around, helped by a heart, and the blood contains an anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide. The body is largely made up of a hydrostatic skeleton and a monogastric digestive system. Ganglion in the head connect to a dual dorsal nerve cord. There is also a large nephridium, gonads and a foul fluid gland.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Peristalsis.

External Features: Worm-Shaped Body (0NP, +1 Tunnelling). Skin (5NP, +0.5 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +0.5 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chaetae (5NP, +1 Tunnelling). Chemoreceptors (2.5NP, +1 Chemoreception). Scoop Proboscis (5NP, +0.5 Filtration, +0.5 Reach). Pinhole Eye (2.5NP, +0.5 Sight). Scutes (5NP, +1.5 Toughness, -0.5 Tunnelling).

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

Temporal Range: R.274 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Massochilus tristus

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle