Acephaloichthys

## Acephaloichthys primituvus

Latest Mutations: Eyes, Move Eyes To Front, Brown

This is a large proto-fish with true eyes positioned at the front of the head to make it a hunter. To blend in with it's murky surroundings, it is brown.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Temperate Ocean

Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 16cm (head to tail)

Nutritional Need: 147.5 x 10/100 = 14.8NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 14.8 x 0.25 = 3.7NP per round (Needs to intake 3.7/0.65 = 5.7NP per round)/ 14.8 x 0.7 = 13.3NP

Abilities: Air Space. Bioluminescence. Buoyancy. Exothermic. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Toxin. UV Resistance, Dark.

Perception: Electroreception 1. Sight 1. Smell 0.5.

Stats: Coordination 2. Dexterity 0.5. Digestion 0.5 (100% Meat, 65%). Immunity 1. Filtration 1. Pierce Strength 0.5. Respiration 2 (Ram Ventilation, Cutaneous Respiration, 90%). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3.5. Strength 0.5. Swim Agility 1.4. Swim Speed 3.8. Support 0.4. Tunnelling 0.5. Toughness 0.9. Walk Agility 0.4. Walk Speed 0.7.

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

External Features: The body is fish-shaped with brown melanin pigmentation in the skin, which is covered by cycloid scales and contains blue autogenic photophores all over. At the head is the mouth with sharp teeth, some olfactory receptors and facing forwards is a pair of eyes, in which the lens moves forwards and back and it has no blind spot. There is a line of electroreceptors along the flank. It has pectoral fins, two semi-circle caudal fins at the back of the tail and a pair of spines at the tails' base.

Internal Features: In most of the body's cells is a small amount of piezolytes. Behind the tail spines are toxin glands, filling the spine with toxin. On each side of the throat are three pairs of gills, inside gill slits. The gills are connected to the blood vessels closed circulatory system, which contains hemoglobin - making it appear red. The system is made up of a single circuit pumped by a heart. There is also a network of muscles across the body. Along the dorsal side of the body is the cartilage vertebra that links the cartilage skull and jaw with the tail. Another line of features is the gastrointestinal tract, starting from the throat and leading to a stomach chamber, followed by intestines. It also includes a liver and kidneys and ends with the bladder and anus. It is connected to a one-chambered swim bladder. It has a pair of gonads. Two nerve cords, starting from the brain, run down the vertebra and branch out into a network of nerves across the whole body.

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

Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Moves tail end of body side to side in a carangiforme motion (+1 Swim Speed).

External Features: Fish Shape (0NP, +1 Swim Speed). Dark Pigments (2.5NP, +Dark UV Resistance). Scales (5NP, +0.5 Toughness, +0.5 Swim Speed). Bioluminescence (2.5NP, +Bioluminescence). Gills (5NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation). Pectoral Fin (5NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.2 Walk Speed, -0.2 Swim Speed). Skin (5NP, +0.5 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +0.5 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Electroreceptors (2.5NP, +1 Electroreception). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Teeth (5NP, +1 Sharpness). Olfactory Receptors (2.5NP, +0.5 Smell). Camera Eye (5NP, +1 Sight). Caudal Fin (5NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Carangiforme). Spines (5NP, +1 Sharpness).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (2.5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Closed Circulatory System (10NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). 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). Swim Bladder (5NP, +Buoyancy, +Air Space). Gonads (5NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +External Fertilisation). Nephridium (5NP, +Liquid Excretion). Jaw (5NP, +0.5 Pierce Strength, +0.5 Dexterity). Vertebrae (10NP, +0.4 Support, +0.4 Toughness, +0.4 Strength, +0.4 Swim Agility, +0.4 Walk Agility). Toxin Gland (5NP, +Toxin).

Temporal Range: R. 271 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 5 years, Maturity after 2.5 years (Growth Rate = x1.25, Life Span = x2)

Predecessor: Anazitonta astatheana

Classification: Sanicthyopsinae (sf), Sanicthyopsidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle