Halmembrana

## Halmembrana brunneis

Latest Mutations: Heart, Brown

Gonimorphus sits inside a hole in the bottom of lakes and rivers of Ithaca, filtering passing particles with it's food. It is different from it's predecessor in that it is brown and has a heart.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Oceanic Warm Temperate Summer Semi-Arid Barrens, Polar Oceanic Cool Temperate Humid Barrens, Polar Continental Cool Winter Semi-Humid Barrens

Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder

Size: 2.3cm (length - from cirri to end)

Nutritional Need: 137 x 0.2/100 = 0.3NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 0.3 x 0.25 = 0.08NP per round (Needs to intake 0.08/0.6 = 0.1NP per round)/ 0.3 x 0.9 = 0.3NP

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

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

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Filtration 2. Immunity 2. Respiration 2 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Wait for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Burrow deeper. 5. Maturity > Reproduce. 6. Immerse in floor.

External Features: The cylindrical body is brown. At the front are cirri, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. There 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 pumped by a dorsal vessel 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: Hermaphroditism.

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

External Features: Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). 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 w/ dorsal vessel (10NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +2 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 Fertilisation).

Temporal Range: R. 225 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Ithaca

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Gonimorphus ithaca

Classification: Pictolexipotusinae (sf), Pictolexipotusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle