Ostrorhynchus

## Orthorhynchus strictus

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Allostoma is a sharp-beaked, planktonic worm. It preys on the eggs other animals, piercing the outer layer with it's beak and sucking out the contents. This species in particular seems to be better developed internally with coiled intestines and a pump vessel. It is also slightly bigger than Allostoma.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean

Niche: Egg Predator

Diet: Eggs

Size: 3mm (length - beak to tail)

Nutritional Need: 140 x 0.3/100 = 0.4NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 0.4 x 0.25 = 0.1NP per round (Needs to intake 0.1/0.7 = 0.1NP per round) / 0.4NP

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

Perception: Chemoreception 1 (1m from mouth). Sight 1 (Blurry Images from the side, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Immunity 2. Filtration 0. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with beak. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Move away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: The skin contains blue melanin pigmentation. The head has a sharp beak, with a sucking tube inside, on the mouth, chemoreceptors and grasping spines around it. On the side of the head are two pairs of pinhole eyes. At the other end of the tubular body is a fan tail and a hyponome.

Internal Features: Glands secrete a foul fluid on the outside of the body. In most of the body's cells is a small amount of piezolytes and also lysozymes. Throughout the centre of the body is the hemacoel, connected to a dorsal vessel, which has blood containing anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide and hemocyanin - meaning it is blue-green, around which a hydrostatic skeleton exists. The protonephridium connects the hemacoel with a pore to the outside. Another line of features is the gastrointestinal tract, starting from the throat and leading to a stomach chamber, followed by coiled intestines. It is connected to a one-chambered swim bladder and ends with the anus. It has a pair of gonads. Two nerve cords, starting from the brain, run down the dorsal side and branch out into a network of nerves across the whole body.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddling, Hyponome Boost.

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Sharp Beak (4NP, +1 Sharpness, +1 Pierce Strength, -1 Filtration). Grasping Spines (4NP, +1 Dexterity). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Sucking Tube (4NP, +Liquid Sucking). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Hyponome Boosting).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Open Circulatory System w/ Pump Vessel (10NP, +2 Stamina, +Small-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Monogastric Digestive System w/ Coiled Intestines (19NP, +2 Meat Digestion, +2 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste).

Temporal Range: R.234 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Allostoma primus

Classification: Allostominae (sf), Hastellidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle