Kermita

## Kermita primus

Latest Mutations: Regeneration, Remove Foul Fluid Gland, Antennae

This blue polychaete worm crawls across the seafloor of the northern hemisphere's temperate zones of the only ocean, Uteenessa. It has a segmented body lined with appendages of parapodia and antennae to find food. It is also bristling with chaetae. Unlike it's predecessor, it also can regenerate some of it's body if it is dismembered and a lack of a foul fluid gland.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean

Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 14cm (length - proboscis to end)

Nutritional Need: 118 x 7/100 = 8.3NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 8.3 x 0.25 = 2.1NP per round (Needs to intake 2.1/0.6 = 3.5NP per round) / 8.3NP

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

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (5m from mouth). Sight 1 (Blurry Images from front, binocular vision, and side, monocular vision).

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1. Immunity 2. Filtration 2. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Stamina 3. Strength 0.5. Support 1. Swim Speed 1. Tunnelling 3. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.

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

External Features: The skin of the elongated body contains blue carotenoid pigments and has antennae, is bristled with chaetae and has parapodia limbs. It has a mouth on a proboscis, which is surrounded by chemoreceptors. The head has a pair of pinhole eyes at the front and side of the head.

Internal Features: Cells contain lysozymes and piezolytes. Up to around half way down the body are stem cells. 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 and gonads.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Slightly Active (10NP). Crawls on parapodia.

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Elongated Body (0NP, +1 Tunnelling). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Antennae (4NP). Parapodia (3NP, +1 Walk Speed, +1 Swim Speed, +1 Filtration). Chaetae (3NP, +1 Tunnelling). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eyes (2NP, +1 Sight).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Body Stem Cells (5NP, +Regrow Body). Closed Circulatory System w/ Heart (21NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation).

Temporal Range: R.228 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Northern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Attenbora parapodius

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle