Neoxyskulus

## Neoxyskulus taylori

Latest Mutations: Budding. Bigger. Lose eyes.

This species burrows into rock and then spends the rest of it's life sticking out of its shelter to filter the water with its tentacles.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder

Size: 10cm (length)

Nutritional Worth: (89/10) x (10/10) = 8.9NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: (8.9 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 4.8NP / 8.9NP

Abilities: Air Space. Anti-Freeze. Barrier Immune System. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Gas Buoyancy. Foul Taste. Liquid Excretion. Moderate UV Resistance. Paralysing Toxin. Permeable Skin. Rock-corroding. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Chemoreception 1 (Senses chemicals 1m away).

Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.

Stats: Buoyancy 1. Burrowing 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (can break down multicellular matter, 10% off). Flexibility 1. Filtration 2. Intelligence 1. Respiration 1. Stamina 2. Strength 0.5. Support 1. Viscosity 1.

External Features: Blue structural colouration gives the the cylindrical body a metallic, blue sheen. This covers the skin. It has a mouth on the end of the proboscis. Cirri protrude around the mouth. It has chemoreceptors around the mouth and on antennae. A sticky pad is at the rear, as well as an acid gland.

Internal Features: An open circulatory system transports blue blood efficiently around the body. Glands on the body secrete a paralysing toxin. Anti-freeze glycoproteins circulate in the body fluids. A nephridium funnels out chemical waste and expels it through a pore. The body is supported by a hydrostatic skeleton. In the mouth cavity is a muscular pharynx and a mucus net. From the mouth, a tube leads to the stomach, then into the intestines and finally to the anus. A brain in the head connects to a nerve cord, which itself is connected to nerves like rungs of a ladder. The body has testes and an ova. Throughout the whole body seeps a bitter fluid. There is also a swim bladder, not connected to the gut.

Locomotion Type: Sessile.

Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs per spawning. Hermaphroditism. Asexual Budding.

Castes/Phases: None.

External Features: Blue structural colouration (2NP, +Moderate UV Resistance). Skin (3NP, +Permeable Skin, +Cutaneous Respiration, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +1 Immunity). Mouth (+1 Filtration). Cirri (3NP, +1 Filtration, Weapon). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Rock-corroding Acid (3NP, +Rock-corroding). Sticky Pad (3NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Burrowing, +1 Flexibility, +1 Support, +0.5 Strength, +Hydrostatic Movement). Open Circulatory System (7NP, +1 Stamina, +Circulation). Anti-Freeze Glycoproteins (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (7NP, +Liquid Excretion). Stomach (11NP, +1 Digestion, +Can Break Down Multicellular Matter). Intestines (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Solid Excretion). Brain and nerve network (22NP, +1 Coordination, +1 Intelligence). Entaopsitox Toxin Gland (7NP, +Paralysing Toxin). Swim Bladder Without Duct (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Gas Buoyancy, +Air Space). Testes (5NP). Ova (5NP). Bitter Fluid (3NP, +Foul Taste).

Temporal Range: R.175 - Present (Nocturnus Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Uteenessa Ocean

Predecessor: Entaops tropicae

Classification: Oxyskulusinae (sf), Entaopsidae (f)

Lifespan: 1 year.

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Neoxyskulus grammeri

Latest Mutations: Longer Tentacles, Bigger, Quite High Salinity Tolerance

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter Feeder

Size: 15cm

Nutritional Need: 117 x 15/100 = 17.6NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 17.6 x 0.25 = 4.4NP per round (Needs to intake 4.4/0.7 = 6.3NP per round)/ 17.6NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Entaopsin Toxin. Foul Taste. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Solid Excretion.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth).

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 2.5. Immunity 2. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Stamina 2. Strength 1. Support 1. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5. Viscosity 1.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move away. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move. Mating hormones + own species chemicals = reproduce. Move signal in water = hyponome boost. Move signal against a surface = peristalsis. ??? = move towards, wave cirri around.

External Features: It has a cylindrical body. The skin has blue irridiphore pigmentation. It has a mouth with long cirri and around it are a few chemoreceptors. On the side of the head is a pair of pinhole eyes. The rear of the body has a hyponome.

Internal Features: It has a hemocoel carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a hydrostatic skeleton. It has gonads and a protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a monogastric digestive system. A gland releases a foul fluid into the body fluids and another releases toxins. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off.

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

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Long Cirri (7NP, +1.5 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Acid Gland (7NP). Holdfast (2NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilization). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion, +Osmoregulation). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, +"Entaopsin Toxin"). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control).

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

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Neoxyskulus enlavis

Classification: Entaopsinae (sf), Entaopsidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Neoxyskulus enlavis

Latest Mutations: Timed Breeding, Lose Swim Bladder

Sessile life brings with it some complications as well as benefits; one of these is that they cannot search for mates, so must simply release their gametes and hope it reaches another member of the species. This species had synchronised this release with the full moon in Early Spring, to ensure the greatest chance of meeting the gametes of others. They also had no need for a swim bladder, being locked into a hollow in rock, which they lost to become more efficient. It stuck its head out of its hollow and filtered the water with cirri to feed.

Status: Extinct (Outcompeted)

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder

Size: 10cm (length)

Nutritional Worth: (82/10) x (10/10) = 8.9NP?

Food / Oxygen Requirement: (8.9 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 4.8NP / 8.9NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Barrier Immune System. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Foul Taste. Liquid Excretion. Moderate UV Resistance. Paralysing Toxin. Permeable Skin. Rock-corroding. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Chemoreception 1 (Senses chemicals 1m away).

Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed. When ready to reproduce on a full moon in Early Spring, release sex cells into the water.

Stats: Burrowing 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (can break down multicellular matter, 10% off). Flexibility 1. Filtration 2. Intelligence 1. Respiration 1. Stamina 2. Strength 0.5. Support 1. Viscosity 1.

External Features: Blue structural colouration gives the the cylindrical body a metallic, blue sheen. This covers the skin. It has a mouth on the end of the proboscis. Cirri protrude around the mouth. It has chemoreceptors around the mouth and on antennae. A sticky pad is at the rear, as well as an acid gland.

Internal Features: An open circulatory system transports blue blood efficiently around the body. Glands on the body secrete a paralysing toxin. Anti-freeze glycoproteins circulate in the body fluids. A nephridium funnels out chemical waste and expels it through a pore. The body is supported by a hydrostatic skeleton. In the mouth cavity is a muscular pharynx and a mucus net. From the mouth, a tube leads to the stomach, then into the intestines and finally to the anus. A brain in the head connects to a nerve cord, which itself is connected to nerves like rungs of a ladder. The body has testes and an ova. Throughout the whole body seeps a bitter fluid.

Locomotion Type: Sessile.

Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs per spawning. Hermaphroditism. Asexual Budding.

Castes/Phases: None.

External Features: Blue structural colouration (2NP, +Moderate UV Resistance). Skin (3NP, +Permeable Skin, +Cutaneous Respiration, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +1 Immunity). Mouth (+1 Filtration). Cirri (3NP, +1 Filtration, Weapon). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Rock-corroding Acid (3NP, +Rock-corroding). Sticky Pad (3NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Burrowing, +1 Flexibility, +1 Support, +0.5 Strength, +Hydrostatic Movement). Open Circulatory System (7NP, +1 Stamina, +Circulation). Anti-Freeze Glycoproteins (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (7NP, +Liquid Excretion). Stomach (11NP, +1 Digestion, +Can Break Down Multicellular Matter). Intestines (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Solid Excretion). Brain and nerve network (22NP, +1 Coordination, +1 Intelligence). Entaopsitox Toxin Gland (7NP, +Paralysing Toxin). Testes (5NP). Ova (5NP). Bitter Fluid (3NP, +Foul Taste).

Temporal Range: R.190 - R.235 (Astathean to Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Predecessor: Neoxyskulus taylori

Classification: Oxyskulusinae (sf), Entaopsidae (f)

Lifespan: 1 year.

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Neoxyskulus bathyus

Latest Mutations: Deep Tolerance

This is a cylindrical animal that lives in tunnels carved into rock by acid. It sticks to the end of the rock with a sticky pad and lives it's life there, filtering passing food with cirri. It has lost it's swim bladder as a result of it's stationary lifestyle. Breeding all at once during Late Spring helps to overcome the difficulties of not being able to approach mates. It lives between 500 to 1500m deep below the surface.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Deep Ocean (500 - 1500m deep)

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 10cm (length - cirri to end)

Nutritional Need: 115 x 10/100 = 13.5NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 13.5 x 0.25 = 3.4NP per round (Needs to intake 3.4/0.6 = 5.7NP per round) / 13.5NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. "Entaopsin" Toxin (Cytotoxin - Causes pain). Exothermic. Foul Taste. High Pressure Tolerance. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth).

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Immunity 2. Filtration 2.5. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Stamina 2. Strength 0.5. Support 1. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Wait for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Retreat into burrow. 5. Maturity and Early Spring > Reproduce.

External Features: The cylindrical body has skin with blue carotenoid pigment and begins with a mouth on a proboscis, surrounded by long cirri and chemoreceptors. At the other end of the body is an acid-producing gland and a holdfast.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. A gland on the skin secretes a foul fluid and a neurotoxin. The body has a hemacoel in the centre of a hydrostatic skeleton and a few small blood vessels from the gills and the protonephridium. The blood is blue-green because it contains hemocyanin as well as an anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide. On the lower half of the body are gonads. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Long Cirri (7NP, +1.5 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Acid Gland (7NP). Holdfast (2NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Piezolytes (5NP, +High Pressure Tolerance). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, +"Entaopsin" Toxin). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control).

Temporal Range: R.225 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 4 years

Predecessor: Neoxyskulus enlavis

Classification: Oxyskulusinae (sf), Entaopsidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle