Hydroceras

## Hydroceras crassus

Latest Mutations: Pump vessel, Move gills, quite high salinity tolerance

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean

Niche: Herbivore

Size: 5cm

Nutritional Need: 160 x 5/100 = 8NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 8 x 0.25 = 2NP per round (Needs to intake 2/0.7 = 2.9NP per round)/ 8 x 0.9 = 7.2NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Cutaneous Respiration. Inflexible. Liquid Excretion. Only Works Underwater; gills. Permeable Skin. Retreat Into Shell. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Digestion. Stationary Respiration. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (detects chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 2 (see 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 (Quite High Salinity). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 3 (20% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 5. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Agility -1. Swim Speed -1. Toughness 3. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed 0.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = hide in shell. Move signal = wave motion. When tired = rest. Algae chemicals = use scrape. Mating hormones = move around. ??? chemicals w/ mating hormones = 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. It has a calcite, cone-shaped shell with a body space on its back and a muscular foot with a mucus gland on it below.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. There is a radula in its mouth. The gills are contained within the mantle cavity. The body has a hemacoel with a pump 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). 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).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Pumped Gills (5NP, +2 Respiration, +2 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Only Works Underwater). Radula (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength, +1 Sharpness). Open Circulatory System w/ Pump Vessel (10NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +2 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). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation).

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

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Zuckeria zuckeria

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Hydroceras glutinus

Latest Mutations: More Viscous

Life in more tumultuous water is possible for this limpet-like gastropod, which produces a more viscous mucus from the gland on it's foot, meaning it is harder for waves to dislodge it. Therefore, it can live where others can't. It crawls along rocks to feed on the algae that grows there, protected by it's shell.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Temperate Ocean

Niche: Herbivore

Size: 5cm

Nutritional Need: 127.5 x 5/100 = 6.4NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 6.4 x 0.25 = 1.6NP per round (Needs to intake 1.6/0.65 = 2.5NP per round)/ 6.4 x 0.8 = 5.1NP

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

Perception: Chemoreception 1. Sight 1.

Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 0.5. Digestion 0.5 (100% Plants, Digests 65%). Dexterity 0.5. Filtration 1.5. Immunity 1. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 80%). Sharpness 1. Stamina 5.5. Strength 0.5. Support 0.5. Swim Agility -0.5. Swim Speed 0. Toughness 3. Tunnelling 1. Viscosity 2. Walk Agility -0.5. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Rasp with radula. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Hide in shell. 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. It has a calcite, cone-shaped shell with a body space on its back and a muscular foot with a mucus gland on it below.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. There is a radula in its mouth. The gills are contained within the mantle cavity. The body has a hemacoel with a pump 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 Pigments (2.5NP, +Medium UV Resistance). Skin (5NP, +0.5 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +0.5 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri (5NP, +0.5 Filtration, +0.5 Dexterity). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2.5NP, +1 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (5NP, +1 Sight). Shell (10NP, +3 Toughness, +0.5 Desiccation Resistance, +0.5 Support, -0.5 Swim Speed, -0.5 Swim Agility, -0.5 Walk Speed, -0.5 Walk Agility). Mollusc Foot (5NP, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Tunnelling, +Wave Motion). Viscous Mucus Gland (5NP, +2 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (2.5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (2.5NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Anti-Freeze Compound (2.5NP, +Anti-Freeze). Gills (5NP, +2 Respiration, +2 Stamina). Radula (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength, +1 Sharpness). Open Circulatory System (10NP, +2 Stamina, +Small-Body Circulation). Dorsal Vessel (5NP, +1 Stamina). Nephridium (5NP, +Liquid Excretion). Muscular System (10NP, +0.5 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +0.5 Tunnelling, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (10NP, +0.5 Meat Digestion, +0.5 Veg Digestion, +0.5 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (10NP, +2 Coordination). Gonads (5NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation).

Temporal Range: R. 271 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Hydroceras crassus

Classification: Laevgastusinae (sf), Laevgastusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle