Elephazous

## Elephazous elaphazous

Latest Mutations: Smaller, Transparent, Eyes

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean

Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder

Size: 1.5cm (length)

Nutritional Need: 144 x 1.5/100 = 2.2NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 2.2 x 0.25 = 0.6NP per round (Needs to intake 0.6/0.7 = 0.9NP per round)/ 2.2 x 0.9 = 2NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Bioluminescence. Cutaneous Respiration. Liquid Excretion. Only Works Underwater; gills. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Stationary Respiration. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Digestion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (detects chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 2 (see clearly up to 5m on one side, monocular vision). Light Sensing.

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Evolution 1 (4 votes). Filtration 2 (2/4 = ? X 2 = ). Immunity 2. Respiration 2 (10% off). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1. Swim Stability 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = ciliated paddling. When tired = rest. Food chemicals = use cirri to filter water into mouth. Mating hormones = move around. ??? chemicals w/ mating hormones = reproduce. There is a chemical for each of the following meanings: "follow me", "danger" and "help".

External Features: The cylindrical body has transparent skin with only the organs coloured. At the front are eight cirri on the end of a muscular siphon, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. Spreading out from the mouth is a jelly-filled dome in four folding lobes. Under the dome 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 camera eye with an aragonite lens that changes shape and a blind spot, and on the dorsal side 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 sex appropriate gonad. 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. The nerve cord is shielded by the notochord.

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

Castes/Phases: Male & Female (+1 Evolution).

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Suspension. Ciliated Paddling.

External Features: Transparent. Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance, -0.5 Warming). Siphon (10NP, +1 Filtration). Jelly-Filled Dome w/ Folding Lobes (3NP, +1 Buoyancy, +1 Swim Agility, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Suspension). Membranes (2NP, +2 Swim Stability). Cilia (2NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Ciliated Paddling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 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). Notochord (4NP, +1 Support). Sexual Caste Gonads (7NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexual Castes, +External Fertilzation).

Temporal Range: R. 197 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Dolichostoma siphunculus

Classification: Dolichostominae (sf), Pictolexipotusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle