Haliquada

## **Haliquada dronus**

Latest Mutations: More Pectoral Fins

This is a mollusc almost entirety surrounded by a spherical shell with eyes and cirri sticking out. It also has four pectoral fins poking through that helps it swim as it remains buoyant with it's lipids. It has no mucus gland. There are no predators for this wandering filter-feeder in the southern temperate ocean.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Temperate Ocean

Niche: Filter-Feeder

Size: 2.5cm

Nutritional Need: 130 x 2.5/100 = 3.3NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 3.3 x 0.25 = 0.8NP per round (Needs to intake 0.8/0.65 = 1.2NP per round)/ 3.3 x 0.8 = 2.6NP

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

Perception: Chemoreception 1. Sight 1.

Stats: Buoyancy 0.5. Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 0.5. Digestion 0.5 (100% Plants, Digests 65%). Dexterity 0.5. Filtration 1.5. Immunity 1. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 80%). Stamina 5.5. Strength 0.5. Support 0.5. Swim Agility 1.5. Swim Speed -0.4. Toughness 3. Tunnelling 1. Walk Agility -0.5. Walk Speed 0.9.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Rasp with radula. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Hide in shell. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: The body with red melanin pigmentation is almost entirely covered in a calcite shell with just a small space for the mouth and many cirri to poke out. Around the mouth are chemoreceptors. A pair of camera eyes with a calcite lens that changes shape with no blind spot on stalks, stick out through holes to the sides. There are three gill slits either side of its head. There is a muscular foot below on the inside and four pectoral fins sticking out the shell.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The body has a hemacoel with a dorsal vessel and a few small blood vessels passing the gills and saccate metanephridium. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. There is a pocket of lipids. It has gonads towards the lower part and there are muscles across the body. From the mouth is a monogastric digestive system and there is also a bladder. The ganglia in head leads to 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). Wave Motion.

External Features: Medium Pigments (2.5NP, +Medium UV Resistance). Skin (5NP, +0.5 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +0.5 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri (5NP, +0.5 Filtration, +0.5 Dexterity). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2.5NP, +1 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (5NP, +1 Sight). Shell (10NP, +3 Toughness, +0.5 Desiccation Resistance, +0.5 Support, -0.5 Swim Speed, -0.5 Swim Agility, -0.5 Walk Speed, -0.5 Walk Agility). Mollusc Foot (5NP, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Tunnelling, +Wave Motion). Pectoral Fin x2 (10NP, +2 Swim Agility, +0.4 Walk Speed, -0.4 Swim Speed)

Internal Features: Piezolytes (2.5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (2.5NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Anti-Freeze Compound (2.5NP, +Anti-Freeze). Gills (5NP, +2 Respiration, +2 Stamina). Open Circulatory System (10NP, +2 Stamina, +Small-Body Circulation). Dorsal Vessel (5NP, +1 Stamina). Nephridium (5NP, +Liquid Excretion). Muscular System (10NP, +0.5 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +0.5 Tunnelling, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (10NP, +0.5 Meat Digestion, +0.5 Veg Digestion, +0.5 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (10NP, +2 Coordination). Gonads (5NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation). Lipids (2.5NP, +0.5 Buoyancy). Bladder (5NP, +Urine Storage).

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

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Nectopetra tardus

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle