Ovodeinus

**Ovodeinus cordus**

Latest Mutations: Heart, Lose Swim Bladder, Transparent

Ovodeinus is a sharp-beaked, planktonic, worm that is so small it lives in a world where water is thick and jelly-like. To help it avoid larger animals because it is planktonic, it is mostly transparent. It preys on the eggs other animals, piercing the outer layer with it's beak and sucking out the contents.  At it's size, it has no need for a swim bladder but it does have a heart. It lives in the Northern Hemisphere temperate ocean.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Temperate Ocean, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean

Niche: Egg Predator

Diet: Eggs

Size: 2mm (length - beak to tail)

Nutritional Need: 133 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. Low 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 3. 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.

External Features: The mostly transparent skin contains blue melanin pigmentation over organs. 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. A ventral vessel helps pump blood around. 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: Transparent. 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 w/ ventral vessel (10NP, +2 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.252 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Northern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Allostoma primus

Classification: Allostominae (sf), Hastellidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle