Allopus

== Allopus repus ==

Latest Mutations: Lose Notochord, Parapodia

Allopus repus is a herbivore and it gets around using fleshy protrusions from the foot called parapodia which it can use to swim. Furthermore, with the support of its shell, it no longer needs a notochord. It lives all over the light-filled regions of the tropical ocean.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Herbivore

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 2.5cm (length)

Nutritional Need: 154 x 5/100 = 7.7NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 7.7 x 0.25 = 1.9NP per round (Needs to intake 1.9/0.7 = 2.7NP per round)/ 7.7 x 0.9 = 6.9NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Inflexible. Liquid Excretion. Solid Excretion. Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Subzero Metabolism. Urine Storage.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 2 (clearly up to 5m on either side, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy -1. Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 2 (100% Cellulose, Digests 70%). Filtration 1 (5/4 = 1.3x1 = 1.3). Immunity 2. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Respiration 2 (10% off, Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Agility -1. Swim Speed 0. Toughness 3. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed 0.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: The cylindrical body has skin with red melanin pigmentation. At the front are two cirri, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a pair of camera eyes with a calcite lens that changes shape with no blind spot on stalks, looking out to the sides. There are three gill slits either side of its head. It has a calcite, conical shell on its back. The shell has a body space. There is a muscular foot with a mucus gland on it below and parapodia stretching from the foot.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The body has a hemacoel with a dorsal vessel and a few small blood vessels from the gills and saccate metanephridium. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. It has gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. From the ganglia in head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

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

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Wave Motion.

External Features: Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Shell (11NP, +3 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +1 Support, -1 Buoyancy, -1 Swim Speed, -1 Swim Agility, -1 Walk Speed, +Inflexible, +Retreat Into Self, -Wriggling). Muscular Foot (3NP, +0.5 Walk Speed, +1 Tunnelling, +Wave Motion). Viscous Mucus Gland (7NP, +1 Viscosity). Parapodia (3NP, +1 Swim Speed).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Cellulase Monogastric Digestive System (18NP, +1 Cellulose Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control). Bladder (4NP, +Urine Storage). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation).

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

Distribution: Northern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Pteryphysis volanus

Classification: Pteryphysisinae (sf), Enapodusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle