Alobella

## Alobella primus

Latest Mutations: Lose Lobe, Lose Teeth, Lose Notochord

Alobella primus evolved from Masticephalus lepusensis and is also a filter-feeder that forms part of the zooplankton with its incredibly small size. It rows through the viscous water with rows of cilia using a few cirri around the mouth to capture food and push it into the mouth. Unlike its predecessor, it has no lobe, no teeth and is completely soft because it lacks a notochord. It lives in the upper portions of the temperate ocean of the Southern Hemisphere.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean

Niche: Zooplankton Filter-Feeder

Size: 2mm (from cirri to end)

Nutritional Need: 128 x 0.2/100 = 0.3NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 0.3 x 0.25 = 0.08NP per round (Needs to intake 0.08/0.6 = 0.1NP per round)/ 0.3 x 0.9 = 0.3NP

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

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

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Filtration 2. Immunity 2. Respiration 2 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Stability 2. UV Resistance 1. 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 cylindrical body has yellow skin. At the front are cirri, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. There are six pairs of gill slits. Along the body are four membranes with lines of cilia on them. On the ventral side of the body is a pinhole eye and on the dorsal side is an eyespot.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The body has a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the gills and saccate metanephridium. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. It has a gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. From the ganglia in head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

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

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with cilia.

External Features: Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance). Membranes (2NP, +2 Swim Stability). Cilia (2NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Ciliated Paddling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Eyespot (3NP, +Light Sensing).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). 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 (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilisation).

Temporal Range: R. 221 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Masticephalus lepusensis

Classification: Pictolexipotusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle