Empropthalmus

## Empropthalmus soundwavia

Latest Mutations: Electric Organ = 4, Better Eyesight = 5, Smell Blood = 2

This Southern Hemisphere proto-fish had a true camera eye, which allowed it to see clearer and further, and an active electroreception sense but it had a less powerful sense of smell. The eyes helped it to hunt in the sunlit summers, while electroreception aided in the dark polar nights. This small predator lived in small shoals and used its sharp, venomous fangs to subdue prey.

Status: Extinct (Outcompeted)

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

Niche: Predator

Size: 8cm (length)

Nutritional Need: (183NP/10) x 8/10 = 14.6NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: (14.6 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.9NP / 14.6 x 0.9 = 13.1NP

Abilities: Air Space. Bioluminescence. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Toxin, Fatal. Circulation, Large-Body. Penetrates Toughness 1 (jaw). Permeable Skin. Pressure Tolerance, Moderate. UV Resistance, Strong.

Perception: Electroreception 1 (passive electrical field 1 body length away). Sight 2 (Binocular Vision, Front). Smell 0.5 (detects odours 1m away).

Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Break Down Multicellular Matter, Digest Meat, 10% off). Evolution 1 (4 votes). Filtration 0.5. Flexibility 2. Immunity 1. Intelligence 1. Memory 2 (1 month). Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1.5. Support 1.5. Swim Speed 3.3. Toughness 0.5. Walk Speed 0.7.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, smell for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source. Join small shoals of other members of the species.

External Features: It has a fish-shaped body with black pigmentation, oval pectoral ray-fins, a caudal fin beneath the tail and two spines at it's base. Cycloid scales cover the skin and a line of electroreceptors on the flank and blue autogenic photophores dot the body. A mouth containing sharp teeth and a pair of fangs in the upper jaw, olfactory receptors are on the head. They have forwards facing camera eyes with a calcite lens, that focuses by moving backwards and forwards, but have a blind spot.

Internal Features: Inside each cell has a low pressure tolerant metabolism. Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits sit each side of head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin, pumped by a simple heart. Muscles line either side of the body between the body wall and the cartilage vertebrae. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw, which is linked to a cartilage skull. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with digestive juices followed by intestines, with vegetation-digesting microfauna, leading to the anus. There is also a liver. A brain with a memory lobe encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into network of nerves. A swim bladder lies in the centre of the body. There is an electric organ. It hosts either male or female gonads. Kidneys, connected to circulatory system, expels waste to the bladder a tract.

Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.

Castes/Phases: Male and Female (Identical) (+1 Evolution).

Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Gas Buoyancy. Active. (20NP)

External Features: Fish-Shaped Body (+1 Swim Speed). Black melanin (2NP, +Strong UV Resistance). Skin (3NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Permeable Skin, +Cutaneous Respiration, +1 Immunity). Mouth (+1 Filtration). Teeth with venomous fangs (4NP, +1 Sharpness, -0.5 Filtration, Weapon). Olfactory Receptors (2NP, +0.5 Smell). Camera Eye (10NP, +2 Sight). Electroreceptors (5NP, +1 Electroreception). Pectoral Fins (4NP, +1 Agility, +0.2 Walk Speed, -0.2 Swim Speed). Diphycercal Caudal Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Speed). Spines (4NP, -0.2 Swim Speed, Weapon). Cycloid Scales (4NP, +0.5 Toughness, +0.2 Swim Speed). Photophores (5NP, +Bioluminescence).

Internal Features: Low Pressure Metabolism (+Low Pressure Tolerance). Migmachordatix Toxin Gland (7NP, +Fatal Toxin). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation). Closed Circulatory System (11NP, +Large-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Longitudinal Muscles (3NP, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Strength, +Crawling). Stomach (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Break Down Multicellular Matter, +Digest Meat). Intestines (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Solid Excretion). Brain and nerve network with memory lobe (30NP, +1 Coordination, +1 Intelligence, +2 Memory). Cartilage Jaw (5NP, +Penetrates Toughness 0). Cartilage Vertebrae (4NP, +2 Flexibilty, +1 Support, +1 Strength). Swim Bladder Without Duct (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Gas Buoyancy, +Air Space). Electric Organ (11NP, +Active Electroreception). Testes (7NP). Ova (7NP).

Temporal Range: R.192 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 3 years (matures after 18 months) = Growth Rate x 1.25 and Life Span is 2x maturity length.

Predecessor: Archaeostomus fallus

Classification: Sanicthyopsinae (sf), Sanicthyopsidae (f)

Discoverer: Soundwave