Tulipa

## Tulipa demarius

Latest Mutations: Extend Stomach, Facial Disc, Move Umbrella

This carnivorous Pictolexipotusid preys on its smaller relatives, filtering in zooplankton with its tentacles. It is also better protected with a lining of bony ossicles beneath the skin and stronger tentacles. It can protrude it's stomach onto food to digest it externally.

Status: LC

Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean

Niche: Zooplankton

Size: 2.5cm (length)

Abilities: Permeable Skin. Below Freezing Metabolism. Fluid Freeze Prevention. External Stomach.

Perception: Blurry Sight. Detects chemicals up to tens of metres away.

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

External Features: It has cylindrical body but with an umbrella-shaped top on the opposite end to the mouth, with yellow pigmentation and four fleshy membranes, each lined with thousands of cillia. It has a thin skin layer. A mouth on a round, flat, facial disc contains small teeth with chemoreceptors around it and on surrounding strong tendrils, with a single pinhole eye.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. Six gill slits line each side of the head. Under the skin lies a chain mail of tiny bony ossicles. Muscles run down each side of the body. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with carnivorous digestive juices followed by intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in head connects to one nerve cord which branches into a network of nerves, with a notochord running alongside. It hosts male and female gonads. The hemacoel cavity, open circulatory system has violet blood containing hemerythrin and anti-freeze proteins. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.

Physical Stats: Speed = 1.5, Stamina = 1, Stability = 1, Attack = 2, Strength = 1.5, Support = 1, UV Resistance = Weak, Filtration = 1.5

Systemic Stats: Osmoregulation = 1 (fresh), Respiration = 2 (cutaneous respiration, ram ventilation), Digestion = 2 (meat), Circulation = 1, Excretion = 1, Immune System = 1, Coordination = 1, Reflexes = 1.

External Features: Cylindrical body but with an umbrella-shaped (+Suspension) top with yellow pigmentation (3NP, +Weak UV Resistance) and four fleshy membranes (8NP, +1 Stability), each lined with thousands of cillia (4NP, +0.5 Speed). Thin skin layer (3NP, +1 Immune System, +1 Respiration, +Permeable Skin). A mouth (+1 Filtration) with small teeth (2NP, +1 Attack, -0.5 Filtration) and chemoreceptors (1NP, +2 Chemoreception) around mouth and on small tentacles (8NP, +1 Attack, +1 Filtration) and a single pinhole eye (2NP, +Blurry Sight) are on the head.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes (3NP, +Below Freezing Metabolism) in addition to enzymes. Six gill slits each side of head (8NP, +1 Respiration). Muscles on each side, attached to body wall (10NP, +1 Speed, +1 Strength, +0.5 Support). Gastrointestinal tract from mouth has stomach with digestive juices (4NP, +1 Digestion) followed by intestines (4NP, +1 Digestion) leading to exit. Brain (6NP, +1 Coordination) encased in head connects to one nerve cords which branch into network of nerves (8NP, +1 Reflexes). Notochord runs alongside (3NP, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Strength). Male and female gonads (6NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism). The hemacoel cavity, open circulatory system (+1 Stamina, +1 Circulation) has violet blood containing hemerythrin and anti-freeze proteins (3NP, +Fluid Freeze Prevention). Protonephridia (4NP, +1 Excretion, +1 Osmoregulation), connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.

Timespan: R.156 - Present (Nocturnus Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Northern Hemisphere

Predecessor: Ossiculodermis carterii

Classification: Ossiculodermisinae (sf), Pictolexipotusidae (f), Tunicaphora (o), Violetamata (c), Bilateria (p)

Lifespan: 2 years.

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Tulipa tropicae

Latest Mutations:

Status: U

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean

Niche: Predator

Size: 2.5cm

Nutritional Need: 124 x 0.4/100 = ?NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: ? x 0.25 = ?NP per round (Needs to intake ?/0.7 = ?NP per round)/ ? x 0.8 = ?NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Barrier Immunity. Bioluminescence. Coordination 2. Cutaneous Respiration. Liquid Excretion. Only Works Underwater; gills. Permeable Skin. Ram Ventilation. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Digestion. Subzero Metabolism.

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

Stats: Digestion 2. Filtration 0.5. Immunity 1. Respiration 2. Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 0.5. Swim Stability 2. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 0.5. Warming -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Constantly = move around. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = ciliated paddling. When tired = rest. Masticephalus chemicals = use cirri to filter water into mouth. Mating hormones = move around. Tulipa tropicae chemicals w/ mating hormones = reproduce.

External Features: The cylindrical body has skin with yellow irridiphore pigmentation. At the front are cirri, followed by the circular mouth with blunt teeth and chemoreceptors. Spreading out from the mouth is a jelly-filled dome. Under the dome are six pairs of gill slits. Along the body are four membranes with lines of cilia on them. On ventral side of the body is a pinhole eye.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes. The body has a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the gills and saccate metanephridium. Anti-freeze proteins flow around the body. It has gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a stomach attached to the intestine. 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.

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Ciliated Paddling.

External Features: Light Pigmentation (2NP, +1 UV Resistance, -0.5 Warming). Jelly-Filled Dome (3NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Suspension). Membranes (2NP, +2 Swim Stability). Cilia (2NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Ciliated Paddling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Teeth (4NP, +1 Sharpness, -0.5 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight).

Internal Features: 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). Stomach (7NP, +1 Digestion). Intestine (7NP, +1 Digestion, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response). Notochord (4NP, +1 Support). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism).

Temporal Range: R. 194 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Tulipa demarius

Classification: Ossiculodermisinae (sf), Ossiculodermisidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle