Copevermis

## Copevermis aquaticus

Latest Mutations: Paddle

Copevermis is a toxic filter-feeding worm, grabbing plankton from the water with its cirri. It lives in the temperate ocean in the Southern Hemisphere, down to 500m below the surface. The tail portion of the body has evolved into a paddle-shape for treating swimming ability.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean

Niche: Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get, filtering particles of 0.15mm or less

Size: 1.5cm (length - cirri to end)

Nutritional Need: 149 x 0.75/100 = 1.1NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 1.1 x 0.25 = 0.3NP per round (Needs to intake 0.3/0.6 = 0.5NP per round) / 1.1NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. "Entaopsin" Toxin - Quickly Fatal Neurotoxin. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (detects chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 1 (Blurry Sight from the side, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable). Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Immunity 2. Filtration 3. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). 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 > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: The skin contains blue melanin pigmentation. The head has two whorls of cirri around the mouth and chemoreceptors. On the side of the head are two pairs of pinhole eyes. At the other end the body develops into a large, flatter, paddle-shape and the hyponome opens from the back just before this widening.

Internal Features: Glands secrete a foul fluid contains a neurotoxin 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 the dorsal vessel, which have 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 intestines. It is connected to a single-chamber 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. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning / Asexual. Budding.

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Uses peristalsis and can boost with hyponome.

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Two Whorls of Cirri (7NP, +2 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Hyponome Boosting). Paddle (2NP, +1 Swim Speed).

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/ dorsal vessel (10NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +2 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). Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation). Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, +"Entaopsin" Toxin). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste).

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

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Virovermes australis

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## **Copevermis tropicae**

Latest Mutations: Tropical Tolerance, Lose Antifreeze, Lose Lysozymes

Copevermis is a toxic filter-feeding worm, grabbing plankton from the water with its cirri. It lives in the temperate ocean in the Southern Hemisphere, down to 500m below the surface. The tail portion of the body has evolved into a paddle-shape for treating swimming ability.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder

Size: 1.5cm (length)

Nutritional Need: 122.5 x 1.5/100 = 1.8NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 1.8 x 0.25 = 0.5NP per round (Need to intake 0.5/0.65 = 0.78NP per round) / 1.8 x 0.9 = 1.6NP

Abilities: Air Space. Foul Taste. Liquid Excretion. Medium UV Resistance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Pressure Tolerance, Low. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Excretion. Toxin.

Perception: Chemoreception 1. Sight 0.5.

Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 0.5. (100% Meat, 65%). Filtration 2. Immunity 1. Stamina 3.7. Strength 0.5. Support 0.5. Swim Agility 0.3. Swim Speed 1. Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration, 90%). Tunnelling 0.5. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: The skin contains blue melanin pigmentation. The head has two whorls of cirri around the mouth and chemoreceptors. On the side of the head are two pairs of pinhole eyes. At the other end the body develops into a large, flatter, paddle-shape and the hyponome opens from the back just before this widening.

Internal Features: Glands secrete a foul fluid contains a neurotoxin on the outside of the body. In most of the body's cells is a small amount of piezolytes. Throughout the centre of the body is the hemacoel connected to the dorsal vessel, which have blood containing 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 intestines. It is connected to a single-chamber 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 spawn. External Fertilisation. Asexual Budding.

Castes/Phases: Sexes.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Peristalsis. Hyponome Boosting.

External Features: Skin (5NP, +0.5 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +0.5 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigments (2.5NP, +Medium UV Resistance). Cirri x2 (10NP, +1 Filtration, +1 Dexterity). Chemoreceptors (2.5NP, +1 Chemoreception). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Pinhole Eye (2.5NP, +0.5 Sight). Hyponome (5NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +0.3 Swim Agility, +1 Respiration, +0.2 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Hyponome Boosting). Paddle (2.5NP, +0.5 Swim Speed).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (2.5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Hydrostatic Skeleton (10NP, +0.5 Tunnelling, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Strength). Open Circulatory System (10NP, +2 Stamina, +Small-Body Circulation). Dorsal Vessel (5NP, +1 Stamina). Gonads (5NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation). Monogastric Digestive System (10NP, +0.5 Meat Digestion, +0.5 Veg Digestion, +0.5 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Nephridium (5NP, +Liquid Excretion). Toxin Gland (5NP, +Toxin). Foul Fluid Gland (5NP, +Foul Taste). Centralised Nervous System (10NP, +2 Coordination). Swim Bladder (5NP, +Buoyancy, +Air Space).

Temporal Range: R. 274 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Predecessor: Copevermis aquaticus

Classification:

Lifespan: 1 year

Discoverer: StealthStyle