Scleronotus

## Scleronotus rudigastrus

Latest Mutations: Gizzard, Heart

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: Herbivore

Size: 4cm

Nutritional Need: 103 x 4/100 = 4.1NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 4.1 x 0.25 = 1NP per round (Needs to intake 1/0.8 = 1.3NP per round)/4.1 x 0.9 = 3.7NP

Characteristics: Absorption. Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Needs Grit. 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 3 (100% Meat). Filtration 0. Immunity 2 (Barrier Immunity). Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 2. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.5. Toughness 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move. Mating hormones + own species chemicals = reproduce). Move signal = hyponome boost and paddle with fan tail and legs. Masticephalus recentibus = move towards, attack with mandibles.

External Features: It has a cylindrical body which has an exoskeleton in six plates with joint tissue in between. The skin underneath has blue irridiphore pigmentation. 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 legs, one to a segment. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome.

Internal Features: The body is segmented and contains six segments. Spiracles lead to aquatic trachae. Blood vessels travel past every cell, carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin, in a single circuit pumped by 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 gonads and a large protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a stomach, gizzard 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.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

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

External Features: Exoskeleton (10NP, +1 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Respiration, -1 Stamina, +Moults, -Cutaneous Respiration, -Permeable Skin, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Long, Serrated Mandibles (5NP, +3 Pierce Strength, +1 Digestion, +1 Dexterity, +2 Reach, +1 Sharpness, -1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 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 (5NP, +1 Walk Speed, +1 Jumping, -0.5 Swim Speed, +Walking, +Paddling). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater).

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). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Gonads (7NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +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). Gizzard (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Needs Grit). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control).

Temporal Range: R.195 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Tartarus

Lifespan: 1-2 years

Predecessor: Mandibulidon parvus

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Scleronotus zahensis

Latest Mutations: Stronger Claws

This is a small arthropod that preys on equally small prey, like shellfish and plankton. Surprisingly, it has the strongest claws of all its contemporaries and is the first animal known to be able to break through mollusc shell.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Freshwater and 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: 4cm

Nutritional Need: 103 x 4/100 = 4.1NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 4.1 x 0.25 = 1NP per round (Needs to intake 1/0.8 = 1.3NP per round)/4.1 x 0.9 = 3.7NP

Characteristics: Absorption. Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Needs Grit. 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 3 (100% Meat). Filtration 0. Immunity 2 (Barrier Immunity). Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 4. Reach 2. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.5. Toughness 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move. Mating hormones + own species chemicals = reproduce). Move signal = hyponome boost and paddle with fan tail and legs. Masticephalus recentibus = move towards, attack with mandibles.

External Features: It has a cylindrical body which has an exoskeleton in six plates with joint tissue in between. The skin underneath has blue irridiphore pigmentation. 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 legs, one to a segment. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome.

Internal Features: The body is segmented and contains six segments. Spiracles lead to aquatic trachae. Blood vessels travel past every cell, carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin, in a single circuit pumped by 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 gonads and a large protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a stomach, gizzard 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.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

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

External Features: Exoskeleton (10NP, +1 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Respiration, -1 Stamina, +Moults, -Cutaneous Respiration, -Permeable Skin, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Long, Serrated Mandibles (5NP, +4 Pierce Strength, +1 Digestion, +1 Dexterity, +2 Reach, +1 Sharpness, -1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 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 (5NP, +1 Walk Speed, +1 Jumping, -0.5 Swim Speed, +Walking, +Paddling). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater).

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). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Gonads (7NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +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). Gizzard (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Needs Grit). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control).

Temporal Range: R. 211 - Present (Agentian Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Tartarus

Lifespan: 1-2 years

Predecessor: Scleronotus rudigastrus

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Scleronotus sensus

Latest Mutations: Improve Chemoreception

This is a small predatory arthropod that feeds on zooplankton along the waterways of Tartarus. It has better chemoreceptors than it's predecessors.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Freshwater & 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

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get

Size: 4cm (length - head to end)

Nutritional Need: 205 x 4/100 = 8.2NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 8.2 x 0.25 = 2.1NP per round (Needs to intake 2.1/0.8 = 2.6NP per round)/ 8.2NP.

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

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

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Meat, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 2. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3.  Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim Away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: A highly jointed, calcified exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. Around the mouth is a pair of long, serrated, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) on either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with long, serrated claws are held at the front of the body and there are four pairs of paddle-lined legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.

Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Spiracles lead into water-filled tubes. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth and gizzard through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.

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

Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and females.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with legs and fan tail, boosts with hyponome.

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). Long, Serrated Mandibles (5NP, +3 Pierce Strength, +1 Digestion, +1 Dexterity, +2 Reach, +1 Sharpness). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 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). Chela (5NP, +1 Dexterity, +1 Pierce Strength, +1 Reach). Legs (5NP, +1 Walk Speed, +1 Jumping, -0.5 Swim Speed, +Paddling, +Walking). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Spiracles (0NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation). Odour Receptors (2NP, +1 Smell). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Closed Circulatory System w/ heart (21NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). 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). Gizzard (7NP, +1 Digestion). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination).

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

Distribution: Tartarus

Lifespan: 1 - 2 years

Predecessor: Scleronotus rudigastrus

Classification: Mandibulidontinae (sf), Mandibulidontidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Scleronotus magnycha

Latest Mutations: Smaller

This is a small predatory arthropod that feeds on zooplankton along the waterways of Tartarus. It is smaller than it's predecessors.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Freshwater & 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, Opportunistic Scavenger

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get

Size: 3cm (length - head to end)

Nutritional Need: 205 x 3/100 = 6.2NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 6.2 x 0.25 = 1.5NP per round (Needs to intake 1.5/0.8 = 1.9NP per round)/ 6.2NP.

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

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

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Meat, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 2. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3.  Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim Away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: A highly jointed, calcified exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. Around the mouth is a pair of long, serrated, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) on either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with long, serrated claws are held at the front of the body and there are four pairs of paddle-lined legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.

Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Spiracles lead into water-filled tubes. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth and gizzard through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.

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

Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and females.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with legs and fan tail, boosts with hyponome.

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). Long, Serrated Mandibles (5NP, +3 Pierce Strength, +1 Digestion, +1 Dexterity, +2 Reach, +1 Sharpness). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 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). Chela (5NP, +1 Dexterity, +1 Pierce Strength, +1 Reach). Legs (5NP, +1 Walk Speed, +1 Jumping, -0.5 Swim Speed, +Paddling, +Walking). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Spiracles (0NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation). Odour Receptors (2NP, +1 Smell). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Closed Circulatory System w/ heart (21NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). 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). Gizzard (7NP, +1 Digestion). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination).

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

Distribution: Tartarus

Lifespan: 1 - 2 years

Predecessor: Scleronotus sensus

Classification: Mandibulidontinae (sf), Mandibulidontidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle