Setomedusus

## Setomedusus primus

Latest Mutations: Transparent

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean

Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder

Size: 2mm

Nutritional Need: 132 x 2/100 = 2.6NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 2.6 x 0.25 = 0.7NP per round (Needs to intake 0.7/0.7 = 1NP per round)/ 2.6 x 0.9 = 2.3NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Bioluminescence. Cutaneous Respiration. Liquid Excretion. Only Works Underwater; gills. Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Digestion. Stationary Respiration. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (detects chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 1 (see blurrily on one side, monocular vision). Light Sensing (other side).

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 2. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Respiration 2 (10% off). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1. Swim Stability 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = ciliated paddling. When tired = rest. Food chemicals = use cirri to filter water into mouth. Mating hormones = move around. ??? chemicals w/ mating hormones = reproduce.

External Features: The cylindrical body has transparent skin with only the organs coloured. At the front are cirri, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. Spreading out from the mouth is a jelly-filled dome. 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 pinhole eye and on the dorsal side is 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 sex appropriate gonad. 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. The nerve cord is shielded by the notochord.

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

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Suspension. Ciliated Paddling.

External Features: Transparent. Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Jelly-Filled Dome (3NP, +1 Buoyancy, +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). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 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 (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation).

Temporal Range: R. 197 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Masticephalus soderqvistii

Classification: Pictolexipotusinae (sf), Pictolexipotusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle