Calyptrabelos

**Calyptrabelos lanceus**

Latest Mutations: Better Hyponome, Cuticle, Hood

This tiny predator is well-equipped for preying upon soft eggs. It has a sharp beak for piercing the outer membranes while holding it in place with grasping spines. Finally, a sucking tube comes out to slurp up the liquidy contents of the egg. It lives in all temperate oceans.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Deep Ocean

Niche: Egg Predator

Size: 2mm

Nutritional Need: 130 x 0.2/100 = 0.26NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 0.26 x 0.25 = 0.07NP per round (Needs to intake 0.07/0.7 = 0.1NP per round)/ 0.26 x 0.9 = 0.23NP

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

Perception: Chenoreception 0.5. Sight 0.5.

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 0. Immunity 2. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration, 90%). Sharpness 1. Stamina 2. Strength 1. Swim Speed 2. Support 1. Toughness 2. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

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

External Features: It has a cylindrical body covered in a cuticle. The skin has blue irridiphore pigmentation. It has a mouth with a sharp beak that contains a sucking tube, along with grasping spines, and around it are a few chemoreceptors. A hood can be slipped over the spines. On either side of the head is two pairs of pinhole eyes. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome.

Internal Features: 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 a gonad and a protonephridium. There is a monogastric digestive system. A gland releases a foul fluid into the body fluids. 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: Hermaphroditism.

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

External Features: Cuticle (10NP, +2 Touguhness). Skin (5NP, +0.5 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +0.5 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigments (2.5NP, +Medium UV Resistance). Beak (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength). Sucking Tube (5NP, +Liquid Sucking). Grasping Spines (5NP, +1 Dexterity). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2.5NP, +0.5 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eye (2.5NP, +0.5 Sight). Fan Tail (5NP, +1 Swim Speed). Swivelling Hyponome (5NP, +1 Swim Speed, +1 Respiration, +0.2 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Hyponome Boosting).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (2.5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (2.5NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Open Circulatory System (10NP, +2 Stamina, +Small-Body Circulation. Anti-Freeze Compound (2.5NP, +Anti-Freeze). Hydrostatic Skeleton (10NP, +0.5 Tunnelling, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Strength). Gonads (5NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +External Fertilisation). Nephridium (5NP, +Liquid Excretion). Monogastric Digestive System (10NP, +0.5 Meat Digestion, +0.5 Veg Digestion, +0.5 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Foul Fluid Gland (5NP, +Foul Taste). Centralised Nervous System (10NP, +2 Coordination).

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

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 4 years

Predecessor: Allostoma ripleyii

Classification: ???

Discoverer: StealthStyle