Amblyvermes

## Amblyvermes caecus

Latest Mutations: Improve Chemoreception, Lose Eyes, Budding

This is a cylindrical animal that lives in tunnels carved into rock by acid. It sticks to the end of the rock with a sticky pad and lives it's life there, filtering passing food with cirri. It has lost it's swim bladder as a result of it's stationary lifestyle. Breeding all at once during Late Spring helps to overcome the difficulties of not being able to approach mates. It lives between 500 to 1500m deep below the surface.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Deep Ocean (500 - 1500m deep)

Niche: Sediment Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 10cm (length - cirri to end)

Nutritional Need: 115 x 10/100 = 11.5NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 11.5 x 0.25 = 2.9NP per round (Needs to intake 2.9/0.65 = 4.5NP per round) / 11.5NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Circulation, Large-Body. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Pressure Tolerance, High. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 1.

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 0.5. (100% Meat, 65%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Stamina 3.5. Strength 0.5. Support 0.5. Tunnelling 2.5. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Wait for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Retreat into burrow. 5. Maturity > Reproduce. 6. Light > Head into darkness.

External Features: The skin of the elongated body contains blue carotenoid pigments and is coated in chaetae. It has a mouth on a proboscis, which is surrounded by chemoreceptors.

Internal Features: Cells contain lysozymes and piezolytes. Blood vessels circulate around, helped by a heart, and the blood contains an anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide. The body is largely made up of a hydrostatic skeleton and a monogastric digestive system. Ganglion in the head connect to a dual dorsal nerve cord. There is also a nephridium, gonads and a foul fluid gland.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Peristalsis.

External Features: Worm-Shaped Body (0NP, +1 Tunnelling). Skin (5NP, +0.5 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +0.5 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chaetae (5NP, +1 Tunnelling). Chemoreceptors (2.5NP, +1 Chemoreception).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (2.5NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Piezolytes (2.5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Foul Fluid Gland (5NP, +Foul Taste). Hydrostatic Skeleton (10NP, +0.5 Tunnelling, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Strength). Closed Circulatory System (10NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2.5NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (5NP, +Liquid Excretion). Heart (5NP,  +1 Stamina). Monogastric Digestive System (10NP, +0.5 Meat Digestion, +0.5 Veg Digestion, +0.5 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Gonads (5NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation. Centralised Nervous System (10NP, +2 Coordination).

Temporal Range: R.273 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 4 years

Predecessor: Ahyponomus minor

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle