Pantheca

## Pantheca primus

Latest Mutations: Round Shell Over Foot, Lose Notochord, More Tentacles

This species of gastropod is almost completely surrounded by its shell, with fins sticking out to swim through the water. Several tentacles prude from the mouth to gather in food. It has no notochord. It lives in the temperate oceans.

Status: U

Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean

Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder

Size: 2.5cm (height)

Nutritional Need: 141 x 2.5/100 = 3.5NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 3.5 x 0.25 = 0.9NP per round (Needs to intake 0.9/0.7 = 1.2NP per round)/ ? x 0.8 = ?NP

Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Anti-Freeze. Barrier Immunity. Cutaneous Respiration. Inflexible. Intolerant of more than 50m deep. Liquid Excretion. Only Works Underwater; gills. Permeable Skin. Ram Ventilation; gills. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Excretion. Urine Storage.

Perception: Sight 2 (see clearly 5m to either side). Chemoreception 2 (detects chemicals 5m from mouth).

Stats: Buoyancy -1. Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 2. Filtration 3. Immunity 1. Respiration 2. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 2.5. Swim Agility 1. Swim Speed -0.9. (Toughness 3 = Shell). UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 0.2. Warming -0.5. Viscosity 1.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response.

External Features: At the front is the many cirri, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a thick, round shell encompassing almost the whole body, made of calcite. This is secreted by the mantle, which is a layer on the skin. The skin contains red melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on stalks through holes in the shell. Six gill slits sit behind the head. Pectoral fins poke through the shell. The central surface has a muscular foot which also has a viscous mucus gland.

Internal Features: It has lysozymes. The body has a hemoacoel, a pump vessel and a few small blood vessels from the gills and saccate metanephridium. There are anti-freeze proteins. It has gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a stomach attached to the intestine and a bladder. From the ganglia in head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction.

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Slightly Active (+5NP). Paddling. Crawling. Wave Motion.

External Features: Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance, -0.5 Warming). Thick Shell (11NP, +3 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Buoyancy, -1.2 Swim Speed, -1 .2 Swim Agility, -1.2 Walk Speed, +Inflexible, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight). Many Cirri (7NP, +1.5 Filtration). Muscular Foot (3NP, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Wave Motion). Viscous Mucus Gland (7NP, +1 Viscosity). Pectoral Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.2 Walk Speed, -0.2 Swim Speed, +Paddling, +Crawling).

Internal Features: Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Open Circulatory System with Pump Vessel (10NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +2 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Muscular System (7NP, +0.5 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Stomach (7NP, +1 Digestion). Intestine (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Solid Excretion). Bladder (4NP, +Urine Storage). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism).

Temporal Range: R. 211 - Present (Agentian Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Ostraops primus

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle