Bowienia

## Bowienia primus

Latest Mutations: Larvae, Cilia on Larvae, No Eyes On Adult

This is a benthic filter-feeder that sucks in water through its entrance like a tunicate. This blue species lives along the tropical ocean floor. It has larvae that use cilia to move, doesn't stick, has no exit hole or mucus net and spends it's time suspended in water, filtering with cilia.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Shallows

Niche: Benthic Filter Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 7cm (height)

Nutritional Need: 117 x 7/100 = 8.2NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 8.2 x 0.25 = 2.1NP per round (Needs to intake 2.1/0.7 = 3NP per round)/ 8.2NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Buccal Pumping. "Entaopsin Toxin". Foul Taste. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Solid Excretion.

Perception: Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth).

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Filtration 3. Immunity 2. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Stamina 2. Strength 1. Suction 0.5. Support 1. Toughness 1. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Pump water into body. 2. Tired > Rest. 3. 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. There is an exit hole near to the mouth.

Internal Features: There is a muscular pharynx. There is a big opening in the middle covered in a mucus net. 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 a foul fluid into the body fluids and another releases toxins. 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: Larval Phase until 2% developed: Larval C. Has no exit hole, holdfast or mucus net or gonads. It has rows of cilia and pinhole eyes. (Changes - Pelagic Filter-Feeder. 153 x size = NP. -1 Viscosity, -0.5 Filtration, +1 Swim Speed. +2 Sight. Ciliated Rowing. Hungry > Search for food. Pain > Row away. Active.)

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Tunic (4NP, +1 Toughness, +1 Support). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Pharyngeal Muscles (7NP, +0.5 Suction, +0.5 Filtration, +Buccal Pumping). Mucus Net (2NP, +0.5 Filtration). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilization). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion, +Osmoregulation). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, +"Entaopsin Toxin"). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control).

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

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Coelotheca borealis

Classification: Tunisominae (sf), Diplostomidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle