Halidiscus

## Halidiscus virosus

Latest Mutations: Tropical Tolerance, Budding, Photosynthetic

Halidiscus virosus is a blue soft sponge that is flat like a pancake and encrusts rocks, living throughout the tropical ocean. It can bud to reproduce asexually on top of sexual reproduction and it hosts photosynthetic bacteria in it's body.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 22cm (width)

Nutritional Need: 41 x 22/100 = 9NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 9 x 0.25 = 2.3NP per round (Needs to intake 2.3/0.6 = 3.8NP per round)/ 9NP

Abilities: Liquid Excretion. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion.

Perception: N/A

Stats: Digestion 1 (100% meat, digests 60%). Immunity 1. Filtration 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Stamina 1. Support 1. UV Resistance 1. Viscosity 1. Warming -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: N/A

External Features: The blue body is crossed by a sponge porous system with a holdfast at the bottom.

Internal Features: Each cell contains piezolytes. It contains photosynthetic bacteria, toxin gland and gonads. A layer of mesoglea is between the body walls.

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

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: N/A

External Features: Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance, -0.5 Warming). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Sponge Porous System (0NP, +1 Filtration, +1 Digestion, +Liquid Excretion, +Solid Excretion, +Only Works Underwater). Holdfast (3NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Photosynthetic Bacteria (1NP, +1 Photosynthesis). Mesoglea Layer (3NP, +1 Support). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation). Cytotoxin Gland (11NP, + "Platyodesox").

Temporal Range: R. 221 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Platyodes tristus

Classification: Tubomorphiinae (sf), Reumaplasmusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Halidiscus caereleus

Latest Mutations: Longer Life

Halidiscus caereleus is a blue soft sponge that is flat like a pancake and encrusts rocks, living throughout the tropical ocean. It can bud to reproduce asexually on top of sexual reproduction and it hosts photosynthetic bacteria in it's body.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder and Photosynthesiser

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 22cm (width)

Nutritional Need: 32 x 22/100 = 7NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 7 x 0.25 = 1.8NP per round (Needs to intake 1.8/0.6 = 3NP per round)/ 7NP

Abilities: Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion.

Perception: N/A

Stats: Digestion 1 (100% meat, digests 60%). Immunity 1. Filtration 1. Photosynthesis 1. "Platyodesox" Toxin. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Stamina 1. Support 1. UV Resistance 1. Viscosity 1. Warming -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: N/A

External Features: The blue body is crossed by a sponge porous system with a holdfast at the bottom.

Internal Features: Each cell contains piezolytes. It contains photosynthetic bacteria, toxin gland and gonads. A layer of mesoglea is between the body walls.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance, -0.5 Warming). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Sponge Porous System (0NP, +1 Filtration, +1 Digestion, +Liquid Excretion, +Solid Excretion, +Only Works Underwater). Holdfast (3NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Photosynthetic Bacteria (1NP, +1 Photosynthesis). Mesoglea Layer (3NP, +1 Support). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation). Cytotoxin Gland (11NP, + "Platyodesox").

Temporal Range: R. 230 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year 6 months (x 1.5)

Predecessor: Platyodes tristus

Classification: Tubomorphiinae (sf), Reumaplasmusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Halidiscus hodgsonsis

Latest Mutations: Growth Rate

Halidiscus is a blue soft sponge that is flat like a pancake and encrusts rocks, living throughout the tropical ocean. It can bud to reproduce asexually on top of sexual reproduction and it hosts photosynthetic bacteria in it's body. This species reaches maturity quicker than it's predecessor.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder and Photosynthesiser

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 22cm (width)

Nutritional Need: 32 x 22/100 = 7NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 7 x 0.25 = 1.8NP per round (Needs to intake 1.8/0.6 = 3NP per round)/ 7NP

Abilities: Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion.

Perception: N/A

Stats: Digestion 1 (100% meat, digests 60%). Immunity 1. Filtration 1. Photosynthesis 1. "Platyodesox" Toxin. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Stamina 1. Support 1. UV Resistance 1. Viscosity 1. Warming -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: N/A

External Features: The blue body is crossed by a sponge porous system with a holdfast at the bottom.

Internal Features: Each cell contains piezolytes. It contains photosynthetic bacteria, toxin gland and gonads. A layer of mesoglea is between the body walls.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance, -0.5 Warming). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Sponge Porous System (0NP, +1 Filtration, +1 Digestion, +Liquid Excretion, +Solid Excretion, +Only Works Underwater). Holdfast (3NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Photosynthetic Bacteria (1NP, +1 Photosynthesis). Mesoglea Layer (3NP, +1 Support). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation). Cytotoxin Gland (11NP, + "Platyodesox").

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

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year 6 months (matures after 9 months) = Growth Rate x 1.5 and Life Span is 1.5x maturity.

Predecessor: Halidiscus caereleus

Classification: Tubomorphiinae (sf), Reumaplasmusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle