Dinocaroides

## Dinocaroides hibridus

Latest Mutations: Flexible Flaps, Bigger

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens

Niche: Predator

Size: 12cm (length)

Nutritional Need: (171NP/10) x 12/10 = 20.5NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: (20.5 x 0.6) x 0.88 = 10.6NP / 20.5NP

Abilities: Air Space. Anti-Freeze. Circulation, Large Body. Foul Taste. Gas Buoyancy. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Moulting. Penetrates Hardness 3 (Pincers). Toxin, Painful. UV Resistance, Moderate.

Perception: Chemoreception 1 (Senses chemicals from 1m away). Sight 1 (Clear vision to the sides, can perceive green and blue light). View Angle 1 (from one pair).

Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 0.5. Digestion 2.2 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 12% off). Filtration 0. Toughness 2. Intelligence 1. Respiration 1. Stability 1. Stamina 2. Strength 0.5. Support 1.5. Swim Speed 3.0. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, look for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.

External Features: Iridiphore pigments give the chitin exoskeleton with many plates covering the cylindrical body a metallic, blue sheen. This covers the skin. The mouth has a pair of mandibles (chelicera) and also has nearby chemoreceptors. On the side of the head are a pair of lens eyes and behind them a pair of compound eyes. The exoskeleton has flexible flaps that overlap each other to create a whole lobe on the side and ends in a fan tail. Below this is a hyponome.

Internal Features: Spiracles at the edge of the body draw in water past gill-like structures. A closed circulatory system of blood vessels transports blue blood efficiently around the body. Anti-freeze glycoproteins circulate in the body fluids. A nephridium funnels out chemical waste and expels it through a pore. The body is supported by a system of muscles. Toxin glands are inside the mandibles. From the mouth, a tube leads to the stomach, then into the coiled intestines and finally to the anus. A brain in the head connects to a nerve cord, which itself is connected to nerves like rungs of a ladder. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder, while below can be found testes or an ova. Throughout the whole body seeps a bitter fluid.

Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.

Castes/Phases: Hermaphrodite.

Locomotion: Undulation. Fluke Swimming. Hyponome Burst. Buoyancy Control. Active (20NP)

External Features: Blue structural colouration (2NP, +Moderate UV Resistance). Chitin exoskeleton (10NP, +2 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +1 Support, - Cutaneous Respiration, - Permeable Skin, +Moulting). Skin (3NP, +Permeable Skin, +Cutaneous Respiration, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +1 Immunity). Pincers (4NP, +Penetrates Hardness 3, +0.5 Dexterity, -1 Filtration, Weapon). Mouth (+1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Two eyes with blue and green receptor cells (7NP, +1 Sight, +Perceives Blue and Green Light). Two compound eyes with blue and green receptor cells (7NP, +1 Sight, +1 View Angle, +Perceives Blue and Green Light). Flexible Flaps (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +1 Stability, +Undulation). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed). Fan tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed).

Internal Features: Aquatic Spiracles (7NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina), Closed Circulatory System (11NP, +1 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Glycoproteins (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Toxin Glands (7NP, +Painful Toxin). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Longitudinal Muscles (3NP, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Strength, +Crawling). Stomach (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Break Down Multicellular Matter, +Digest Meat). Coiled Intestines (7NP, +1.2 Digestion, +Solid Excretion). Brain and nerve network (22NP, +1 Coordination, +1 Intelligence). Swim Bladder Without Duct (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Gas Buoyancy, +Air Space). Testes (7NP). Ova (7NP). Bitter Fluid (3NP, +Foul Taste).

Temporal Range: R.176 - Present (Nocturnus Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Tartarus

Lifespan: 1 - 2 years

Predecessor: Deinognathus in rachis

Classification: Unnamed (sf), Deinognathusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Dinocaroides tropicae

Latest Mutations: Improve Hyponome, High Salinity Tolerance

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean

Niche: Predator

Size: 12cm

Nutritional Need: 206 x 12/100 = 24.7NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 24.7 x 0.25 = 6.2NP per round (Needs to intake 6.2/0.7 = 8.9NP per round)/ 24.7 x 0.9 = 22.2NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (High Salinity). Solid Excretion. Xenoarthropodusin Toxin.

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

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 0. Immunity 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 4. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 3.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move. Mating hormones + own species chemicals = reproduce. Move signal = hyponome boost, lobe undulation and paddle with fan tail. ??? = move towards, close mandibles over it.

External Features: It has a cylindrical body which has an exoskeleton. The skin has blue melanin pigmentation. In front of the circular mouth are mandibles and around it are a few chemoreceptors. On either side of the head is a large 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. It has a series of lobes at its sides. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome.

Internal Features: The body is segmented. It has aquatic spiracles. It has a hemacoel, 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 gonads and a large protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a monogastric digestive system. A gland releases a foul fluid into the body fluids and it also has a neurotoxin gland, containing Xenoarthropodusin. 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). Undulation, Hyponome Boosting.

External Features: Exoskeleton (10NP, +2 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Respiration, -1 Stamina, +Moults, -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). Mandibles (5NP, +3 Pierce Strength, +1 Digestion, +1 Dexterity, +1 Reach, -1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Camera Eye w/ blue and green cone cells (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision, +Blue Perception, +Green Perception). Compound Eye w/ blue and green cone cells (11NP, +1 Wide Vision, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision, +Blue Perception). Lobes (5NP, +1 Swim Speed, +1 Swim Stability, +Undulation). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Closed Circulatory System (10NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Aquatic Spiracles (0NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilization). Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). 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). Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, "Xenoarthropodusin Toxin"). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control).

Temporal Range: R.197 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Dinocaroides hibridus

Classification: Dinocaroidesinae (sf), Mandibulidontidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle