Pultrypa

## Pultrypa falbracchi

Latest Mutations: Bigger = 4, Larger, Sharper Mandibles = 6 (penetrates hardness 3), Spring-loaded Arm (a small saddle that winds up the arm to strike quicker) = 4, Better Respiration = 6

The claws of Pultrypa are devastating weapons; they are long, serrated and can crush through even calcified chitin exoskeletons. The only armour they cannot penetrate are full on calcium carbonate shells. And a saddle-like muscle can prepare the chelipeds to be launched like they are spring-loaded, moving these dangerous weapons with lightning-quick speed. Add all this to their relative size, the largest animal at the time of its appearance, and improved respiratory system, which has enlarged the spiracles into chambers, and it creates an Oliverian apex predator.

Status: LC

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens

Niche: Predator, Herbivore

Size: 20cm (length)

Nutritional Need: (180NP/10) x 20/10 = 36NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: (36 x 0.6) x 0.88 = 19NP / 36 x 0.9 = 32.4NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Buoyancy. Circulation, Large-Body. Excretion, Liquid. All High Pressures Intolerant. Moults. Osmoregulation, Variable (Brackish, High Salinity). Penetrates Toughness 3. Rolls Up. Taste, Bitter. UV Resistance, Moderate.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (Detects chemicals 5m away from the front). Peripheral Vision (Clear sight to the side). Sight 2 (Clear sight to the side, Blue and Green Perception).

Stats: Coordination 1. Desiccation Resistance 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2.2 (Digests Meat, 12% off). Filtration 0. Flexibility -0.5. Immunity 1. Intelligence 1. Jumping 1. Reactions 1. Respiration 2 (Stationary Respiration, 10% off). Stamina 3. Strength 0.5. Support 1.5. Swim Speed 2.4. Toughness 3. Walk Speed 1.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When feeling pain; roll up into a ball. When hungry; look or sense for algae or animals. In Early Spring, when ready to reproduce, move to brackish water and gather in specific breeding sites (+1 Evolution) and then sense for pheromones of opposite sex and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.

External Features: About fourteen segments of a calcified, chitin exoskeleton cover the cylindrical, slightly rounded body, and connected by a flexible tissue. The structure creates a blue sheen. The exoskeleton covers the skin. A pair of mandibles lay on either side of the mouth. There are also chemoreceptors on the front and at the side of the head are a pair of lens eyes, then a pair of compound eyes both with blue and green receptor cells. On each segment of the middle exoskeleton is a pair of jointed legs, adding up to ten. The first pair are chelipeds which ends in long, serrated pincers (chela). The next four pairs of legs are lined with paddles up until the tip. The final five pairs are biramous swimmerets, lined with paddles. At the end is a fan tail, extended from the exoskeleton, with a hyponome below.

Internal Features: The hyponome does not form much of a chamber. Spiracles dotted along the body lead to muscular chambers containing gills. The mouth leads to a tube that reaches the stomach, which connects to the coiled intestines and this to the anus. A brain in the head connects to a nerve cord, which is connected to nerves that spread across the body like rungs of a ladder. Blood vessels cross all over the body, connected to a two-chambered heart. The blood is blue because it contains hemocyanin; it also contains anti-freeze glycoproteins. A muscular system exists in the body, including a saddle-like muscle on the inside joint of the chelipeds. There is a nephridium, a swim bladder and sexual organs. A bitter fluid is produced by a sac.

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

Castes/Phases: Male & Female until late life (Identical) (+1 Evolution)

Locomotion: Walking. Paddling. Hyponome Cruising. Active (20NP)

External Features: Segments of calcified, chitin exoskeleton (10NP, +3 Toughness, +2 Desiccation Resistance, +1 Support, +1 Immunity, -0.5 Flexibility, +Moults, +Rolls Up). Blue (1NP, +Moderate UV Resistance). Mandibles (4NP, +1 Dexterity, -1 Filtration, +Penetrates Toughness 3, Weapon). Mouth (+1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Lens eyes, compound eyes with blue and green receptor cells (10NP, +2 Sight, +1 Peripheral Vision, +Blue and Green perception). Legs, long, serrated chela, paddles, biramous swimmerets (8NP, +1 Walk Speed, +1 Jumping, +1 Dexterity, +0.4 Swim Speed, +Walks, +Paddles, +Penetrates Toughness 3, Weapon). Fan tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddles). Hyponome (3NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, Hyponome Cruising).

Internal Features: Gills (11NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration). Stomach (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Digests Meat). Coiled intestines (7NP, +1.2 Digestion). Brain (11NP, +1 Intelligence). Nerve cord (11NP, +1 Coordination). Blood vessels (7NP, +1 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Two-chambered heart (11NP, +1 Stamina). Anti-freeze glycoproteins (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Muscular system (7NP, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed). Saddle-like muscle (7NP, +1 Reactions). Nephridium (19NP, +Liquid Excretion, +Variable Osmoregulation). Swim bladder (7NP, +Buoyancy, +All High Pressures Intolerant). Sexual organ (7NP). Bitter fluid sac (4NP, +Bitter Taste).

Temporal Range: R.189 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Tartarus, Olympia, Aeaea and All Oceans

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Salcaedis corcillum

Classification: Pultrypinae (sf), Hydroambulidae (f)

Discoverer: Jellyfishmon

## Pultrypa reponectus

Latest Mutations: Improve Paddles = 4, Better Muscles = 3, Increase Size = 3, Sand colored with a white underbelly. When in mating season give the males blue stripes on their limbs = 5

An arthropod with complicated appendages that is the top of the food chain in the tropical seas and oceans, as well as tropical estuaries around the world. They approach their prey before launching a wound-up arm at their victim and slicing it to death. The complication is that it has legs for walking but can fold them up so that the paddles form a lobe-like structure, such as in an Anomlaocaris. They employ two tones of colour to camouflage when seen from above or below but adult males will develop stripes of blue on their legs.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens

Niche: Predator

Size: 20cm

Nutritional Need: FEMALE: 219 x 20/100 = 43.8NP. MALE: 221 x 20/100 = 44.2NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: FEMALE: 43.8 x 0.25 = 11NP per round (Needs to intake 11/0.7 = 15.7NP per round)/43.8 x 0.9 = 39NP MALE: 44.2 x 0.25 = 11.1NP per round (Needs to intake 11.1/0.7 = 15.9NP per round)/44.2 x 0.9 = 40NP

Characteristics: Absorption. Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Inflexible. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoregulation (High Salinity, Brackish Salinity). Rolls Up. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view that catches peripheral movement).

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat). Evolution 1. Filtration 0. Immunity 2 (Barrier Immunity, Stomach Acid). Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Reactions 1. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 2.9. Swim Stability 0.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.7. Warming -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = roll up. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move to Tropical Shallows breeding sites. (FEMALE ONLY: Mating hormones + own species chemicals + perceive blue stripes = reproduce). (MALE ONLY: Mating hormones + own species chemicals + perceive no blue stripes = reproduce). Move signal in water = fold legs against body to create lobes, hyponome boost and paddle with fan tail. Move signal against a surface = walk. ??? = move towards, wind up cheliped then launch it.

External Features: It has a cylindrical body which has a calcified, calcite exoskeleton in fourteen plates with joint tissue in between. The skin underneath has sandy melanin pigmentation on top and white melanin pigmentation underneath. One pair of legs have chela on the end. In front of the circular mouth is a mandible. Around the mouth are a few chemoreceptors. On either side of the head is a camera eye with calcite lens that changes shape and has no blind spot and a typical apposition compound eye, which both contain blue and green cone cells. Not including the chelipeds, it has four pairs of normal legs, one to a segment, that have a large paddle on the outer side. When swimming, these are folded in to give the effect of a continuous lobe halfway along the body. Behind that is five pairs of biramous, paddle-lined swimmerets, one to a segment. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome. Males in the mating season have a series of blue stripes on their limbs, unique to the species.

Internal Features: The body is segmented and contains fourteen segments. Spiracles lead to aquatic trachae. Blood vessels travel past every cell, carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin, and the single circuit has a two-chambered heart. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a system of muscles. It has a sex-appropriate gonad and a large protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a stomach and coiled intestines. A gland releases a foul fluid into the body fluids. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off. A cerebrum has memory neurons.

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

Castes/Phases: Genders.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Undulation, Paddling, Hyponome Boosting. Walking.

External Features: Calcified Exoskeleton (10NP, +2 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Respiration, -1 Stamina, +Rolls Up, +Moults, +Inflexible, -Cutaneous Respiration, -Permeable Skin, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance, -0.5 Warming). Long, Serrated Chela (5NP, +1 Dexterity, +3 Pierce Strength, +2 Reach, +1 Sharpness). Mandibles (5NP, +3 Pierce Strength, +1 Digestion, +1 Dexterity, +1 Reach, -1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eye w/ blue and green cone cells (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision, +Blue Perception, +Green Perception). Compound Eye w/ blue and green cone cells (11NP, +1 Wide Vision, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision, +Blue Perception). Legs Change Into Partial Lobes (5NP, +1 Walk Speed, +1 Jumping, +0.5 Swim Speed, +0.5 Swim Stability, +Walking, +Undulation). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Paddle-Lined Swimmerets (5NP, +0.4 Swim Speed, +0.2 Walk Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater). MALE ONLY: Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance).

Internal Features: Closed Circulatory System w/ heart (21NP, +3 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Gills Trachae (7NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Arm Spring (7NP, +1 Reactions). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Sexual Caste Gonads (7NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Genders, +External Fertilization). Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Large Nephridium (19NP, +Liquid Excretion, +Osmoregulation). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Centralised Nervous System with Memory Neurons (26NP, +2 Coordination, +1 Memory, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control).

Temporal Range: R.196 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Tartarus, Olympia, Aeaea and All Oceans

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Pultrypa falbracchi

Classification: Pultrypinae (sf), Hydroambulidae (f)

Discoverer: Jellyfishmon

## Pultrypa jellyfishmonii

Latest Mutations: Freshwater Tolerance, Remove Anti-Freeze

This is very similar to it's predecessor Pultrypa reponectus, being an efficient, hunting hyperarthropod except that it lives in freshwater and has been able to spread throughout several continents whilst it's relatives prowl the ocean and estuaries. Having had no need for it for generations now, it has lost the anti-freeze compound in it's blood.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Freshwater in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Subpolar Oceanic Warm Temperate Summer Semi-Arid Barrens, Subpolar Continental Warm Temperate Arid Barrens, Subpolar Continental Warm Temperate Very Arid Barrens, Polar Oceanic Cool Temperate Humid Barrens

Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 20cm (length - head to tail)

Nutritional Need: 214 x 20/100 = 42.8NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 42.8 x 0.25 = 10.7NP per round (Needs to intake 10.7/0.8 = 13.4NP per round)/ 42.8NP.

Abilities: Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater). Roll Up. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (detects chemicals 5m from mouth).

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Meat, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 2. Reactions 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 2.9. Swim Stability 0.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.7.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Memory 1. 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with wound-up cheliped. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Roll Up. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: It has a cylindrical body which has a calcified, calcite exoskeleton in fourteen plates with joint tissue in between. The skin underneath has sandy melanin pigmentation on top and white melanin pigmentation underneath. One pair of legs have chela on the end. In front of the mouth is a mandible. Around the mouth are a few chemoreceptors. On either side of the head is a camera eye with calcite lens that changes shape and has no blind spot and a typical apposition compound eye, which both contain blue and green cone cells. Not including the chelipeds, it has four pairs of normal legs, one to a segment, that have a large paddle on the outer side. When swimming, these are folded in to give the effect of a continuous lobe halfway along the body. Behind that is five pairs of biramous, paddle-lined swimmerets, one to a segment. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome. Males in the mating season have a series of blue stripes on their limbs, unique to the species.

Internal Features: The body is segmented and contains fourteen segments. Spiracles lead to aquatic trachae. Blood vessels travel past every cell, carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin, and the circuit has a two-chambered heart. The body is supported by a system of muscles. It has a sex-appropriate gonad and a large protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a stomach and coiled intestines. A gland releases a foul fluid into the body fluids. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off. A cerebrum has memory neurons.

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

Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and females. (Changes - Male = Adulthood > Blue Stripes on Legs).

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Usually moves by undulating fan tail and legs folded into lobes and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.

External Features: Highly Jointed Calcified Exoskeleton (10NP, +2 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Respiration, -1 Stamina, +Moults, +Roll Up, -Cutaneous Respiration, -Permeable Skin, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Mandibles (5NP, +3 Pierce Strength, +1 Digestion, +1 Dexterity, +1 Reach). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eyes w/ blue and green cone cells (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision, +Binocular Vision, +Blue Perception, +Green Perception). Compound Eyes w/ blue and green cone cells (11NP, +1 Wide Vision, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision, +Blue Perception, +Green Perception). Long, Serrated Chela (5NP, +1 Dexterity, +3 Pierce Strength, +2 Reach, +1 Sharpness). Legs Change Into Partial Lobes (5NP, +1 Walk Speed, +1 Jumping, +0.5 Swim Speed, +0.5 Swim Stability, +Walking, +Undulation). Paddle-Lined Swimmerets (5NP, +0.4 Swim Speed, +0.2 Walk Speed, +Paddling). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Aquatic Spiracles (0NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Closed Circulatory System w/ heart (21NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Arm Spring (7NP, +1 Reactions). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Gonads (7NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilization). Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy). Large Nephridium (19NP, +Liquid Excretion, +Osmoregulation). Monogastric Digestive System w/ coiled intestines (19NP, +2 Meat Digestion, +2 Veg Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination). Memory Neurons (6NP, +1 Memory).

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

Distribution: Olympia, Delphi, Tartarus, Aeaea

Lifespan: 1 - 2 years

Predecessor: Pultrypa reponectus

Classification: Pultrypinae (sf), Gempliaoridae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle