Inolarynx

## Inolarynx maculatus

This was a predatory proto-fish that lived in the Temperate Ocean of the Southern Hemisphere. It was black, had bioluminescent spots all over it and sharp, venomous fangs. It lived in loose shoals. Inolarynx had pharyngeal muscles around the mouth and throat that allowed it to create a buccal pump that drew water past the gills. It also sucked in organisms from the water. It had a much shorter memory than its predecessor. It shared the niche of small predator with Empropthalmus.

Latest Mutations: Pharyngeal Muscles = 5, Improve brain for packs = 2, Longer digestive tract = 3

Status: Extinct (Outcompeted)

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean

Niche: Predator

Size: 8cm

Nutritional Need: 187 x 8/100 = 15NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 15 x 0.25 = 3.8NP per round (Needs to intake 3.8/0.9 = 4.2NP per round)/ 15 x 0.9 = 13.5NP

Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Bioluminsecence. Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. "Migmachordatix Toxin". Only Works Underwater; gills. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Passive Electroreception. Permeable Skin. Ram Ventilation. Startle. Stationary Respiration. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Sight 2 (Sees clearly up to 5m away from the front). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (detects odour traces up to 1m away from the front).

Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2. Immunity 2. Filtration 1 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2. Sharpness 2. Stamina 3. Strength 2. Suction 0.5. Support 1. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 2.5. Toughness 1 (2 in spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = carangiform. When tired = rest. Sense ??? right in front = bite with mouth. Mating hormones = move around. ??? w/ mating hormones = reproduce.

External Features: The skin of the tapering, fairly stream-lined body is covered in cycloid scales with black melanin pigmentation and blue autogenic photophores. The head has a mouth with razor sharp teeth and venomous fangs. There are also a pair of forward-face camera eyes and olfactory receptors. It has a pair of pectoral fins and a line of electroreceptors along the flank. At the end of the body is a dicypheral caudal fin as a semicircle below the tail and spines at its base.

Internal Features: Behind the head are three gill slits. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw and has pharyngeal muscles around it. It has a closed circulatory system. There are muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. It has a swim bladder, gonads, a Migmachordatix neurotoxin gland, an electric organ and a nephridium. Ganglia in the head connect to a single dorsal nerve cord, protected by a cartilage vertebrae.

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

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Carangiform (+1 Swim Speed).

External Features: Tapering Body (+Anguillaform). Cycloid Scales (4NP, +1 Toughness, +0.2 Swim Speed). Dark Pigmentation (2NP, +3 UV Resistance). Photophores (5NP, +Bioluminescence, +Startle). Pectoral Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.2 Walk Speed, -0.2 Swim Speed, +Paddling, +Crawling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin, +Stationary Respiration). Electroreceptors (2NP, +1 Electroreception). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Sharp Teeth (4NP, +2 Sharpness, -0.5 Filtration). Olfactory Receptors (2NP, +1 Smell). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Binocular Vision). Caudal Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Carangiform). Spines (4NP, +1 Sharpness).

Internal Features: Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Oral Jaw (5NP, +1 Dexterity, +1 Pierce Strength). Pharyngeal Muscles (7NP, +0.5 Suction, +0.5 Filtration, +Buccal Pumping). Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, +"Migmachordatix Toxin"). Closed Circulatory System (10NP, +Large-Body Circulation, +2 Stamina). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (18NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System w/ Memory Neurons (26NP, +2 Coordination, +1 Memory, +Stimulus Response). Cartilage Vertebrae (10NP, +1 Toughness, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +1 Swim Agility, +1 Walk Agility). Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilisation). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Electric Organ (11NP, +2 Electroreception, +Active Electroreception).

Temporal Range: R. 203 - Present (Agentian Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 3 years (matures after 18 months) = Growth Rate x 1.25 and Life Span is 2x maturity length.

Predecessor: Empropthalmus soundwavia

Classification:

Discoverer: OoferDoofer