Allostoma

## Allostoma primus

Latest Mutations: Sucking Tube, Quite High Salinity Tolerance

This tiny predator is well-equipped for preying upon 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. It lives in all temperate oceans.

Status: LC

Habitat: Temperate Ocean

Niche: Egg Predator

Size: 2mm

Nutritional Need: 145 x 0.2/100 = 0.3NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 0.3 x 0.25 = 0.1NP per round (Needs to intake 0.1/0.7 = 0.1NP per round)/ 0.3 x 0.9 = 0.3NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Small-Body Circulation. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Liquid Sucking. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity).

Perception: Sight 1 (blurrily from the sides, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth).

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

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move away. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move. Mating hormones + own species chemicals = reproduce. Move signal in water = hyponome boost and paddle with fan tail. Move signal against a surface = peristalsis. ??? = move towards, grab in spines, impale with beak.

External Features: It has a cylindrical 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: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Sharp Beak (4NP, +1 Sharpness, +1 Pierce Strength, -1 Filtration). Sucking Tube (4NP, +Liquid Sucking). Grasping Spines (4NP, +1 Dexterity). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilization). Oily Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy). Large Nephridium (19NP, +Liquid Excretion, +Osmoregulation). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control).

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

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Lancella astatheana

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Allostoma tropicae

Latest Mutations: Tropical Tolerance

Allostoma tropicae is a sharp-beaked, planktonic worm that is so small it lives in a world where water is thick and jelly-like. It preys on the eggs other animals, piercing the outer layer with it's beak and sucking out the contents.  This species lives in the tropical ocean, as deep as 500m below the surface.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Egg Predator

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 2mm (length - beak to tail)

Nutritional Need: 136 x 0.2/100 = 0.3NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 0.3 x 0.25 = 0.08NP per round (Needs to intake 0.08/0.6 = 0.1NP per round) / 0.3NP

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

Perception: Chemoreception 1 (1m from mouth). Sight 1 (Blurry Images from the side, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1. Immunity 2. Filtration 0. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 2. Strength 0.5. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

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

External Features: The cylindrical body has skin contains blue melanin pigments and begins with a sharp beak also housing a sucking tube as the mouth. It has several grasping spines around the beak and chemoreceptors around the mouth. On each side of the head is a pair of pinhole eyes. At the back of the body is a fan tail and below that a hyponome.

Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains lysozymes and a relatively small number of piezolytes. Glands on the skin secrete a foul fluid. The body has a hydrostatic skeleton around a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the protonephridium. The blood is blue-green because it contains hemocyanin and also contains an anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium and near the upper wall is the one-chambered oily swim bladder. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddling, Hyponome Boost.

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Sharp Beak (4NP, +1 Sharpness, +1 Pierce Strength, -1 Filtration). Grasping Spines (4NP, +1 Dexterity). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Sucking Tube (4NP, +Liquid Sucking). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Hyponomes Boosting).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +1 Stamina, +Small-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste).

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

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Allostoma primus

Classification: Allostominae (sf), Hastellidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Allostoma parasitus

Latest Mutations: Lay Eggs in Eggs, Lose Swim Bladder

Allostoma is a sharp-beaked, planktonic, parasitic worm that is so small it lives in a world where water is thick and jelly-like. It preys on the eggs other animals, piercing the outer layer with it's beak and sucking out the contents. Even when reproducing it bedevils the eggs of other species by laying it's eggs into the eggs of other animals - with any luck the Allostoma eggs, sheltering in the larger egg, hatch first and bore their way out with their beaks and can have an early meal. At it's size, it has no need for a swim bladder. This species lives in the tropical ocean, from the surface to 500m below.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Egg Predator, Parasite

Diet: Eggs

Size: 2mm (length - beak to tail)

Nutritional Need: 126 x 0.2/100 = 0.3NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 0.3 x 0.25 = 0.08NP per round (Needs to intake 0.08/0.6 = 0.1NP per round) / 0.3NP

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

Perception: Chemoreception 1 (1m from mouth). Sight 1 (Blurry Images from the side, monocular vision).

Stats: Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Immunity 2. Filtration 0. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 2. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with beak. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Move away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce, laying eggs in the egg of another animal.

External Features: The skin contains blue melanin pigmentation. The head has a sharp beak, with a sucking tube inside, on the mouth, chemoreceptors and grasping spines around it. On the side of the head are two pairs of pinhole eyes. At the other end of the tubular body is a fan tail and a hyponome.

Internal Features: Glands secrete a foul fluid on the outside of the body. In most of the body's cells is a small amount of piezolytes and also lysozymes. Throughout the centre of the body is the hemacoel, which has blood containing anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide and hemocyanin - meaning it is blue-green, around which a hydrostatic skeleton exists. The protonephridium connects the hemacoel with a pore to the outside. Another line of features is the gastrointestinal tract, starting from the throat and leading to a stomach chamber, followed by intestines. It is connected to a one-chambered swim bladder and ends with the anus. It has a pair of gonads. Two nerve cords, starting from the brain, run down the dorsal side and branch out into a network of nerves across the whole body.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddling, Hyponome Boost.

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Sharp Beak (4NP, +1 Sharpness, +1 Pierce Strength, -1 Filtration). Grasping Spines (4NP, +1 Dexterity). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Sucking Tube (4NP, +Liquid Sucking). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Hyponome Boosting).

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

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

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Allostoma tropicae

Classification: Allostominae (sf), Hastellidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Allostoma ripleyii

Latest Mutations: Quite Low Salinity Tolerance, High Pressure Piezolytes

Allostoma is a sharp-beaked, planktonic, parasitic worm that is so small it lives in a world where water is thick and jelly-like. It preys on the eggs other animals, piercing the outer layer with it's beak and sucking out the contents. Even when reproducing it bedevils the eggs of other species by laying it's eggs into the eggs of other animals - with any luck the Allostoma eggs, sheltering in the larger egg, hatch first and bore their way out with their beaks and can have an early meal. At it's size, it has no need for a swim bladder. This species lives in the deep ocean, between 500 - 1500m below sea level.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Deep Ocean

Niche: Egg Predator, Parasite

Diet: Eggs

Size: 2mm (length - beak to tail)

Nutritional Need: 126 x 0.2/100 = 0.3NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 0.3 x 0.25 = 0.08NP per round (Needs to intake 0.08/0.6 = 0.1NP per round) / 0.3NP

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

Perception: Chemoreception 1 (1m from mouth). Sight 1 (Blurry Images from the side, monocular vision).

Stats: Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Immunity 2. Filtration 0. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 2. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with beak. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Move away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce, laying eggs in the egg of another animal.

External Features: The skin contains blue melanin pigmentation. The head has a sharp beak, with a sucking tube inside, on the mouth, chemoreceptors and grasping spines around it. On the side of the head are two pairs of pinhole eyes. At the other end of the tubular body is a fan tail and a hyponome.

Internal Features: Glands secrete a foul fluid on the outside of the body. In most of the body's cells is a small amount of piezolytes and also lysozymes. Throughout the centre of the body is the hemacoel, which has blood containing anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide and hemocyanin - meaning it is blue-green, around which a hydrostatic skeleton exists. The protonephridium connects the hemacoel with a pore to the outside. Another line of features is the gastrointestinal tract, starting from the throat and leading to a stomach chamber, followed by intestines. It is connected to a one-chambered swim bladder and ends with the anus. It has a pair of gonads. Two nerve cords, starting from the brain, run down the dorsal side and branch out into a network of nerves across the whole body.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddling, Hyponome Boost.

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Sharp Beak (4NP, +1 Sharpness, +1 Pierce Strength, -1 Filtration). Grasping Spines (4NP, +1 Dexterity). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Sucking Tube (4NP, +Liquid Sucking). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Hyponome Boosting).

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

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

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Allostoma parasitus

Classification: Allostominae (sf), Hastellidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## **Allostoma samadarai**

Latest Mutations: More Eggs

Allostoma is a sharp-beaked, planktonic, parasitic worm that is so small it lives in a world where water is thick and jelly-like. It preys on the eggs other animals, piercing the outer layer with it's beak and sucking out the contents. Even when reproducing it bedevils the eggs of other species by laying it's many eggs into the eggs of other animals - with any luck the Allostoma eggs, sheltering in the larger egg, hatch first and bore their way out with their beaks and can have an early meal. At it's size, it has no need for a swim bladder. This species lives in the deep ocean, between 500 - 1500m below sea level.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Deep Ocean

Niche: Egg Predator, Parasite

Diet: Eggs

Size: 2mm (length - beak to tail)

Nutritional Need: 126 x 0.2/100 = 0.3NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 0.3 x 0.25 = 0.08NP per round (Needs to intake 0.08/0.6 = 0.1NP per round) / 0.3NP

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

Perception: Chemoreception 1 (1m from mouth). Sight 1 (Blurry Images from the side, monocular vision).

Stats: Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Immunity 2. Filtration 0. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 2. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with beak. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Move away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce, laying eggs in the egg of another animal.

External Features: The skin contains blue melanin pigmentation. The head has a sharp beak, with a sucking tube inside, on the mouth, chemoreceptors and grasping spines around it. On the side of the head are two pairs of pinhole eyes. At the other end of the tubular body is a fan tail and a hyponome.

Internal Features: Glands secrete a foul fluid on the outside of the body. In most of the body's cells is a small amount of piezolytes and also lysozymes. Throughout the centre of the body is the hemacoel, which has blood containing anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide and hemocyanin - meaning it is blue-green, around which a hydrostatic skeleton exists. The protonephridium connects the hemacoel with a pore to the outside. Another line of features is the gastrointestinal tract, starting from the throat and leading to a stomach chamber, followed by intestines. It is connected to a one-chambered swim bladder and ends with the anus. It has a pair of gonads. Two nerve cords, starting from the brain, run down the dorsal side and branch out into a network of nerves across the whole body.

Reproduction: Sexual. 10,000 eggs per spawning. External Fertilisation.

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddling, Hyponome Boost.

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Sharp Beak (4NP, +1 Sharpness, +1 Pierce Strength, -1 Filtration). Grasping Spines (4NP, +1 Dexterity). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Sucking Tube (4NP, +Liquid Sucking). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Hyponome Boosting).

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

Temporal Range: R.264 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 4 years

Predecessor: Allostoma ripleyii

Classification: Allostominae (sf), Hastellidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle