Ardiphysis

## Ardiphysis tristus

Latest Mutations: Sandy Brown, Reproduce in Late Summer, Heart

Arenvermes angustus is a sandy brown, elongated animal that lives in a burrow in sediments of the tropical ocean, filtering passing food with cirri. It has a pump vessel in the ventral area to help the blood flow. It reproduces simultaneously during Late Summer.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get, filtering particles of 0.7mm or less.

Size: 14cm (length)

Nutritional Need: 103 x 7/100 = 7.2NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 7.2 x 0.25 = 1.8NP per round (Needs to intake 1.8/0.6 = 3NP per round) / 7.2NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. "Entaopsin" Toxin - Quickly Fatal Neurotoxin. Exothermic. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (detects chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 1 (Blurry Sight from the sides, binocular vision). Light Perception (Rear Half).

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Evolution 1. Immunity 2. Filtration 2. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 1. Tunnelling 2. UV Resistance 2. 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 in Late Summer > Reproduce.

External Features: The skin contains sandy brown melanin pigmentation. The head has cirri around the mouth and chemoreceptors. On the side of the head are two pairs of pinhole eyes. At the other end of the elongated body are several eyespots and a hyponome.

Internal Features: Glands secrete a foul fluid contains a neurotoxin 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 pump vessel is connected to the hemacoel. 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 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. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning / Asexual. Budding.

Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and female.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Elongated Body (0NP, +1 Tunnelling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight). Eyespots (2NP, +Light Sensing).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Open Circulatory System w/ Pump Vessel (10NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +2 Stamina). 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 (7NP, +1 Evolution, Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilzation). Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, +"Entaopsin" Toxin).

Temporal Range: R.230 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Arenvermes angustus

Classification: Entaopsinae (sf), Entaopsidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle