Polyphemusia

## Polyphemusia troglodytes

Latest Mutations: Heart, Eye

Status: U

Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean

Niche: Predator

Size: 9.1cm

Nutritional Need: 145 x 0.4/100 = ?NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: ? x 0.25 = ?NP per round (Needs to intake ?/0.7 = ?NP per round)/ ? x 0.8 = ?NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Barrier Immunity. Bioluminescence. Coordination 2. Cutaneous Respiration. Liquid Excretion. Only Works Underwater; gills. Permeable Skin. Ram Ventilation. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Digestion. Startle. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 2. Sight 2.

Stats: Digestion 2. Filtration 0.5. Immunity 1. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2. Sharpness 2. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Swim Speed 0.3. Swim Stability 1. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 0.7. Warming -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Constantly = move around. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = wriggling. When tired = rest. Sense ??? right in front = bite down. Mating hormones = move around. Polyphemusia troglodytes chemicals w/ mating hormones = reproduce. Light = move towards less light.

External Features: The cylindrical body has sandy brown irridiphore pigmentation in the skin. The mouth at the front has sharp teeth and chemoreceptors and are surrounded by blue autogenic photophores. On top of the head is a pinhole eye. A pair of pectoral fins and membranes run down the sides of the body.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes. The mouth contains a cartilage jaw. The body has a hemacoel, a pump vessel and a few small blood vessels from the gills and saccate metanephridium. Anti-freeze proteins flow around the body. It has gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a stomach attached to the intestine. From the ganglia in head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off. The nerve cord is shielded by the notochord.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction.

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddling. Crawling.

External Features: Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance, -0.5 Warming). Membranes (2NP, +1 Swim Stability). Pectoral Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.2 Walk Speed, -0.2 Swim Speed, +Paddling, +Crawling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Teeth (4NP, +2 Sharpness, -0.5 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight). Photophores (5NP, +Bioluminescence, +Startle).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Pump Vessel (7NP, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Muscular System (7NP, +0.5 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Oral Jaw (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength). Stomach (7NP, +1 Digestion). Intestine (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response). Notochord (4NP, +1 Support). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism).

Temporal Range: R. 194 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Northern

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Dolophonaskulus cuniculus

Classification: Megalognathusinae (sf), Megalognathusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle