Zygosoma

## Zygosoma sanctus

Latest Mutations: Tubarium

This is a colonial filter-feeder that floats around the tropical ocean, filtering in food with it's siphons. Each zooid is covered by a tubarium that is transparent like the rest of them.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Filter-Feeder

Size: 3cm (colony length - from cirri to end)

Nutritional Need: 149 x 3/100 = 4.5NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 4.5 x 0.25 = 1.1NP per round (Needs to intake 1.1/0.6 = 1.8NP per round)/ 4.5 x 0.9 = 4.1NP

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

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (detects chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 2 (see clearly up to 5m on ventral side, monocular vision). Light Sensing (dorsal side).

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable). Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Filtration 3. Immunity 2. Respiration 2 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Stability 2. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce. 6. Other member of species > go towards.

External Features: The colonial animal is made of a pair of zooids, each one in a tubarium, connected by a stolon. The cylindrical body has transparent skin with only the organs coloured. At the front are eight cirri on the end of a muscular siphon, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. Spreading out from the mouth is a jelly-filled dome in four folding lobes. Under the dome are six pairs of gill slits. Along the body are four membranes with lines of cilia on them. On the ventral side of the body is a camera eye with an aragonite lens that changes shape and a blind spot, and on the dorsal side an eyespot.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The body has a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the gills and saccate metanephridium. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. It has a gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. From the ganglia in head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

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

Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and female.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with cilia.

External Features: Transparent. Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance). Tubarium (2NP). Siphon (10NP, +1 Filtration). Jelly-Filled Dome w/ Folding Lobes (3NP, +1 Buoyancy, +1 Swim Agility, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Suspension). Membranes (2NP, +2 Swim Stability). Cilia (2NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Ciliated Paddling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Eyespot (3NP, +Light Sensing).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (18NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control). Notochord (4NP, +1 Support). Gonads (7NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexual Castes, +External Fertilisation).

Temporal Range: R. 239 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Xenodisoma primus

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle