Malopus

## Malopus malopus

Latest Mutations: Pump Vessel, High Salinity Tolerance

Status: U

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean

Niche: Predator

Size: 10cm

Nutritional Need: 146 x 0.4/100 = ?NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: ? x 0.25 = ?NP per round (Needs to intake ?/0.7 = ?NP per round)/ ? x 0.8 = ?NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Barrier Immunity. Bioluminescence. Coordination 2. Cutaneous Respiration. Liquid Excretion. Only Works Underwater; gills. Permeable Skin. Ram Ventilation. Slimy. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Digestion. Startle. Subzero Metabolism.

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

Stats: Digestion 2. Filtration 0.5. Immunity 1. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2. Sharpness 2. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Swim Speed 0.3. Swim Stability 1. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.7. Warming -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Constantly = move around. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = walking. When tired = rest. Sense ??? right in front = bite down. Mating hormones = move around. Malopus malopus chemicals w/ mating hormones = reproduce. Light = move towards less light.

External Features: The elongated body has yellow irridiphore pigmentation in the skin. Mucus glands make it slimy. The mouth at the front has sharp teeth and chemoreceptors and are surrounded by blue autogenic photophores. On top of the head is a pinhole eye. A pair of pectoral fins and membranes run down the sides of the body. Underneath the body is the numerous oncopods.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes. The mouth contains a cartilage jaw. The body has a hemacoel, a pump vessel and a few small blood vessels from the gills and saccate metanephridium. Anti-freeze proteins flow around the body. It has gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a stomach attached to the intestine. 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.

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking.

External Features: Elongate Body (0NP, +1 Tunnelling). Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance, -0.5 Warming). Membranes (2NP, +1 Swim Stability). Pectoral Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.2 Walk Speed, -0.2 Swim Speed, +Paddling, +Crawling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Teeth (4NP, +2 Sharpness, -0.5 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight). Photophores (5NP, +Bioluminescence, +Startle). Mucus Glands (7NP, +Slimy). Oncopods (3NP, +1 Walk Speed, +Walking).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Pump Vessel (7NP, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Muscular System (7NP, +0.5 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Oral Jaw (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength). Stomach (7NP, +1 Digestion). Intestine (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response). Notochord (4NP, +1 Support). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism).

Temporal Range: R. 194 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Macromorphii parvedes

Classification: Macromorphiinae (sf), Megalognathusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Malopus glabus

Latest Mutations: Tropical Tolerance, Lose Membranes

This animal has a long body with oncopods that allows it to move effectively through the narrow crevices in rocks where it makes it's home. The membranes of it's predecessors have been lost. It uses it's wide jaws to capture prey around it's rocky hiding places. The predator lives in the tropical ocean.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Predator

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 10cm (length - jaws to end)

Nutritional Need: 148  x 5/100 = 7.4NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 7.4 x 0.25 = 1.9NP per round (Needs to intake 1.9/0.6 = 2.7NP per round) / 7.4 x 0.9 = NP

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

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (5m from mouth). Sight 1 (Blurry Images from front, monocular vision).

Stats: Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1. Immunity 2. Filtration 1. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 2. Slipperiness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 0.5. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.5.

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

External Features: The elongated body has yellow carotenoid pigmentation in the skin and underneath the body is the numerous oncopods. Mucus glands make it slimy. The wide mouth at the front has sharp teeth and chemoreceptors and is surrounded by blue autogenic photophores. On top of the head is a pinhole eye.

Internal Features: Cells contain lysozymes and piezolytes. A hemacoel circulates blood, helped by a ventral vessel, and the blood contains anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol. There are a few small blood vessels passing the gills and metanephridium. The head houses a cartilage jaw. There is a muscular system and a stomach that leads to intestines. Ganglion in the head connect to a nerve cord, protected by a notochord. There are also gonads.

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

Castes/Phases: Hermaphrodites.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking.

External Features: Elongated Body (0NP, +1 Tunnelling). Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Oncopods (3NP, +1 Walk Speed, +Walking). Mucus Glands (7NP, +1 Slipperiness). Wide Mouth (0NP, +1.5 Filtration). Sharp Teeth (4NP, +2 Sharpness, -0.5 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Photophores (5NP, +Bioluminescence, +Startle). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Open Circulatory System w/ Pump Vessel (10NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +2 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Oral Jaw (5NP, +1 Dexterity, +1 Pierce Strength). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). 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). Notochord (4NP, +1 Support). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation).

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

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Malopus malopus

Classification: Macromorphiinae (sf), Megalognathusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle