Cholopictus

## Cholopictus microzos

Latest Mutations: Smaller

This tiny jellyfish sticks itself to larger animals and feeds off their body.

Status: LC

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean

Niche: Parasite

Size: 4mm (Diameter)

Nutritional Worth: (21.5/10 X 0.4 =) 1NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement:

Abilities: None.

Perception: None.

Intelligence / Behaviour: None.

External Features: A bell-shaped, blue body has a circular mouth of the underside of the bell and four barbed tentacles dangling from the sides. The mouth has a sticky ring around it, and can secrete digestive juices.

Internal Features: A layer of mesoglea supports the body. A u-shaped gut contains carnivorous digestive bacteria. A nerve net coordinates the body.

Castes/Phases: None.

Temporal Range: R.140 - Present (Gammavian Stage of the Atroxian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Cholopictus parasitus

Classification: Cholopictusinae (sf), Mollisitulidae (f), Pelagopolypa (o), Tentaculophora (c), Nautolozoa (p)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Cholopictus borealus

Latest Mutations: Temperate north, pain relief

This tiny, northern hemisphere jellyfish sticks itself to larger animals and feeds off their body. It can release a pain relief substance into its host, so that the host doesn't even realise it is there.

Status: LC

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean

Niche: Parasite

Size: 4mm (Diameter)

Nutritional Worth: (21.5/10 X 0.4 =) 1NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement:

Abilities: None.

Perception: None.

Intelligence / Behaviour: None.

External Features: A bell-shaped, blue body has a circular mouth of the underside of the bell and four barbed tentacles dangling from the sides. The mouth has a sticky ring around it, and can secrete digestive juices and a pain relief substance.

Internal Features: A layer of mesoglea supports the body. A u-shaped gut contains carnivorous digestive bacteria. A nerve net coordinates the body.

Locomotion Type: (Movement Energy: 0NP)

Reproduction:

Castes/Phases: None.

Temporal Range: R.163 - Present (Nocturnus Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Northern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Cholopictus microzos

Classification: Cholopictusinae (sf), Mollisitulidae (f), Pelagopolypa (o), Tentaculophora (c), Nautolozoa (p)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Cholopictus lepusensis

Latest Mutations: Produce More Young

Status: U

Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean

Niche: Parasite

Size: 4mm (Height)

Nutritional Need: 64 x 0.4/100 = ?NP

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

Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Solid Excretion.

Perception: N/A

Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 1. Filtration 1. Warming -0.5. Viscosity 1. UV Resistance 1.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Constantly = move around. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = hyponome boost. When tired = rest. Masticephalus chemicals = use cirri to filter water into mouth. Mating hormones = move around. Coliteuthis carnivorus chemicals w/ mating hormones = reproduce.

External Features: Blue irridiphore pigmentation in the skin of the jelly-filled dome. Cirri hang from around the mouth, where there is a viscous mucus gland, numbing secretion gland and digestive juices secretion gland.

Internal Features: A nerve net rings the body. A mesoglea layer is the only thing between the skin layers. An intestine leads from the mouth. It has gonads.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilization. 2,000 eggs per spawning.

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Suspension.

External Features: Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance, -0.5 Warming). Jelly-Filled Dome (3NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Suspension). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Viscous Mucus Gland (7NP, +1 Viscosity). Digestive Juices Secretion Gland (7NP). Numbing Secretion Gland (7NP).

Internal Features: Nerve Net (10NP, +1 Coordination, +Stimulus Response). Mesoglea Layer (3NP, +1 Support). Intestine (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Solid Excretion). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism).

Temporal Range: R. 194 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Northern

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Cholopictus borealus

Classification: ???

Discoverer: StealthStyle