Nectopetra

== Nectopetra tardus ==

Latest Mutations: Buoyancy, Lose Mucus Gland

This is a mollusc almost entirety surrounded by a spherical shell with eyes and cirri sticking out. It also has pectoral fins poking through that helps it swim as it remains buoyant with it's lipids. It has no mucus gland. There are no predators for this wandering filter-feeder in the southern temperate ocean.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean

Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 2.5cm (length - cirri to end)

Nutritional Need: 152 x 2.5/100 = 3.8NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 3.8 x 0.25 = 1NP per round (Needs to intake 1/0.7 = 1.4NP per round)/ 3.8 x 0.9 = 3.4NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Inflexible. Liquid Excretion. Permeable Skin. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Small-Body Circulation. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism. Urine Storage.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 2 (clearly up to 5m on either side, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy 0. Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 2 (100% Cellulose, Digests 70%). Filtration 1.5 (5/4 = 1.3x1 = 1.3). Immunity 2. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Respiration 2 (10% off, Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation). Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Agility 1. Swim Speed -0.2. Toughness 3. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.2.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: The body with red melanin pigmentation is almost entirely covered in a calcite shell with just a small space for the mouth and many cirri to poke out. Around the mouth are chemoreceptors. A pair of camera eyes with a calcite lens that changes shape with no blind spot on stalks, stick out through holes to the sides. There are three gill slits either side of its head. There is a muscular foot below on the inside and pectoral fins sticking out the shell.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The body has a hemacoel with a dorsal vessel and a few small blood vessels passing the gills and saccate metanephridium. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. There is a pocket of lipids. It has gonads towards the lower part and there are muscles across the body. From the mouth is a monogastric digestive system and there is also a bladder. The ganglia in head leads to a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Wave Motion, can swim with pectoral fins.

External Features: Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). 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). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Many Cirri (7NP, +1.5 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Muscular Foot (3NP, +0.5 Walk Speed, +1 Tunnelling, +Wave Motion). Pectoral Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.2 Walk Speed, -0.2 Swim Speed, +Paddling, +Crawling).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Open Circulatory System w/ Pump Vessel (10NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +2 Stamina). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Lipids (4NP, +1 Buoyancy).  Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Bladder (4NP, +Urine Storage). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control).

Temporal Range: R. 225 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Pantheca primus

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle