Mollibarmis

## Mollibarmis noimoxekino

Latest Mutations: Ganglion on Arms = 4, Improve Chemoreception = 6, External Digestive Enzymes = 5

This crinoid-like species has evolved to have it's ganglia at the base of each arm rather than a central ganglia, meaning that each arm has greater reflexes and ability but that coordination of the animal as a whole is slightly worse as a result. Essentially, it's brains are now in it's arms. Mollibarmis is a filter-feeder. The chemoreceptors of Mollibarmis are located on the tube feet, unlike it's predecessors and can smell over vast distances - 100 metres, to be precise. The strangest adaptation of the animal is that has a stomach that it could evert onto it's chosen target and start to turn digest it externally and form it into a soup, which is then pulled back into the body with it's stomach. This means it could eat food bigger than it's mouth, and with the stronger acids could even eat food that has begun to rot. However, as a filter-feeder it cannot use this.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Temperate Ocean, Subpolar Temperate Ocean

Niche: Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any meat it can get.

Size: 2.5cm (from cirri to end)

Nutritional Need: 158 x 2.5/100 = 4NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 4 x 0.25 = 1NP per round (Needs to intake 1/0.6 = 1.7NP per round)/ 4 x 0.75 = 3NP

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

Perception: Chemoreception 4 (detects chemicals 100m from tube feet). Sight 1 (see blurrily on ventral side, monocular vision). Light Sensing (dorsal side).

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 1.5. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Filtration 3. Immunity 2. Respiration 3.5 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 25% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Stability 2. Toughness 3. Viscosity 1. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.5.

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

External Features: The cylindrical body with a jelly-filled dome has yellow skin. There is an endoskeleton of ossicles and they are arranged in plates in a up around the front called a theca. At the front are arms lined with feather-like pinnules lined with tube feet carrying chemoreceptors, followed by the circular mouth. It has teeth in it's mouth. There are six pairs of gill slits. Along the body are four membranes with lines of cilia on them. On the ventral side of the body is a pinhole eye. At the bottom is a root-like holdfast.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. A water vascular system carries water from the tube feet to the main canals that radiate from the central canal around the mouth, and also from the madroporite. The body has a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the gills. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. It has a gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system; the stomach, located after a short esophagus, is split into two parts and one pouch can be everted. The is a ganglia at the base of each arm, and forms a radial nerve system which is connected to a nerve cord that runs down the rest of the body.

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

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with cilia.

External Features: Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance). Jelly-Filled Dome (3NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Suspension). Membranes (2NP, +2 Swim Stability). Cilia (2NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Ciliated Paddling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Teeth (4NP, +1 Sharpness, -0.5 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +4 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Ossicles (10NP, +3 Toughness). Tube Feet (5NP, +1 Walk Speed, +1 Filtration, +1 Viscosity, +0.5 Respiration). Pinnules (2NP, +1 Filtration). Holdfast (2NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Water Vascular System (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Liquid Excretion, +Solid Excretion). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System w/ strong acids (18NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1.5 Immunity, +1 Rot Digestion, +Solid Excretion, +Eversible Stomach). Radial Nervous System (20NP, +1.5 Coordination, +0.5 Filtration, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control). Notochord (4NP, +1 Support). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilisation).

Temporal Range: R. 252 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Northern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Medusoderas pennicoronus

Classification:

Discoverer: Doomlightning