Arenvermes

## Arenvermes angustus

Latest Mutations: Tropical Tolerance, Lose Fluid Gland, Elongated

Arenvermes angustus was a blue, elongated animal that lived in a burrow in sheltered sediments of the tropical ocean, filtering passing food with cirri. It was more elongated than it's predecessors and also lost their bitter fluid gland.

Status: Extinct (Outcompeted)

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 14cm (length)

Nutritional Need: 96 x 7/100 = 6.7NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 6.7 x 0.25 = 1.7NP per round (Needs to intake 1.7/0.6 = 2.4NP per round) / 6.7NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. "Entaopsin" Toxin. Exothermic. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (5m from mouth). Sight 1 (Blurry Sight from the front, binocular vision and side, monocular vision).

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1. Evolution 1. Immunity 2. Filtration 2. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Stamina 2. Strength 0.5. Support 1. Tunnelling 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Wait for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Retreat into burrow. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: It has a cylindrical body. The skin has blue irridiphore pigmentation. It has a mouth with cirri and around it are a few chemoreceptors. It has pinhole eyes and eyespots at the rear.

Internal Features: Each cell has piezolytes and lysozymes. It has a hemocoel carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a hydrostatic skeleton. It has gonads and a protonephridium. There is a monogastric digestive system. A gland releases toxins. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off.

External Features: The elongated, cylindrical body has skin with blue melanin pigment and begins with a mouth surrounded by cirri and chemoreceptors. Two pairs of pinhole eyes are on the side of the head. On the lower half of the body are eyespots.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. A gland on the skin secretes a neurotoxin. The body has a hydrostatic skeleton around a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the protonephridium. The blood is blue-green because it contains hemocyanin as well as an anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide. There is a system of muscles across the body. On the lower half of the body are gonads. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off.

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

Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and female.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Elongated Body (0NP, +1 Tunnelling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight). Eyespots (2NP, +Light Sensing).

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 (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control). Gonads (7NP, +1 Evolution, Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilzation). Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, +"Entaopsin" Toxin).

Temporal Range: R.221 - R. 131 (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Ammoskulus fodius

Classification: Entaopsinae (sf), Entaopsidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle