Octoplocamus

## Octoplocamus simpus

Latest Mutations: Produce More Young, Nematocysts, More Tentacles

This jellyfish floats along the seas, using its eight tentacles armed with nematocysts to find and kill tiny prey. The numbers of this species are high as it provides more young than other species when reproducing.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean

Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder

Size: 4cm (length)

Nutritional Need: (79/10) x (4/10) = 2.9NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 2.9NP

Abilities: Moderate UV Resistance. Solid Excretion.

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

Stats: Coordination 0.5. Digestion 2 (can digest multicellular matter, can digest meat, 10% off). Filtration 3. Support 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: None.

External Features: A bell-shaped, blue body has a circular mouth of the underside of the bell and eight barbed tentacles with nematocysts, dangling from the sides and two oral arms from around the mouth. There are also chemoreceptors.

Internal Features: A layer of mesoglea supports the body. A u-shaped gut contains carnivorous digestive bacteria. A nerve net coordinates the body.

Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 2,000 eggs.

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Suspension. Active (20NP).

External Features: Blue Structural Colouration (2NP, +Moderate UV Resistance) Bell (2NP, +Suspension). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Mouth (+1 Filtration). Barbed Tentacles (3NP, +1 Filtration, Weapon). Nematocysts (6NP, Weapon). Oral arms (3NP, +1 Filtration, Weapon).

Internal Features: Mesoglea (2NP, +0.5 Support). Stomach (7NP, +1 Digestion, +can digest multicellular matter, +can digest meat). Intestine (7NP, +Solid Excretion, +1 Digestion). A nerve net coordinates the body (11NP, +0.5 Coordination). Male Gonads (5NP). Female Gonads (5NP).

Temporal Range: R.190 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Bibrachophorous sensus

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Octoplocamus sensus

Latest Mutations: Improve Chemoreception

This is a small jellyfish that floats through the northern temperate range of Uteenessa, filtering the water with it's long, barbed tentacles, waiting to snag some prey and drag it to it's mouth. It has better chemoreception and more tentacles.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean

Niche: Predator

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 4cm (diameter)

Nutritional Need: 86 x 4/100 = 3.4NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 3.4 x 0.25 = 0.9NP per round (Needs to intake 0.9/0.6 = 1.5NP per round)/ 3.4NP

Abilities: Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (senses odour 5m from mouths).

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable). Coordination 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digest 60%). Immunity 2. Filtration 3 (10/4 = 2.5x2.5 = 6.3NP). Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 1. UV Resistance 2.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Grab with tentacles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim Away. 5. Maturity > Release gametes.

External Features: There is a blue hydrostatic bell which has a mouth below it and eight barbed tentacles with nematocysts and followed by oral arms dangling below. Chemoreceptors are placed around the bell.

Internal Features: Each cell contains piezolytes and there are only two layers of the body. A nerve net encircles the body but gonads are found beneath the bell as a pair of white rings. The mouth leads to an incomplete digestive system.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Pulses with bell.

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin, +Stationary Respiration). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Jelly-Filled Dome (3NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Suspension). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Barbed Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration, +1 Reach). Nematocysts (5NP, +1 Sharpness). Oral arms (3NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Nerve Net (10NP, +1 Coordination, +Stimulus Response). Incomplete Digestive System (15NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Liquid Excretion, +Solid Excretion). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +External Fertilisation).

Temporal Range: R. 244 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Octoplocamus temperatus

Classification: Mollisitulinae (sf), Mollisitulidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Nyctopolypus sylvestrus

Latest Mutations: Photosynthetic Bacteria

Nyctopolypus is a fan-shaped stony coral that lives attached to rocks across the tropical ocean. During the day it's gets it's energy from photosynthetic bacteria that has allowed it to grow in huge numbers in the sunny, upper reaches of the ocean. It forms expansive coral reef habitats. At night, it filters with it's polyps.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder

Size: 16cm (colony height)

Nutritional Need: 75 x 16/100 = 12NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 12 x 0.25 = 3NP per round (Needs to intake 3/0.6 = 5NP per round)/ 12NP

Characteristics: Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Retreat Into Self. Reversible Guts. Solid Excretion.

Perception: None.

Stats: Coordination 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat). Immunity 2. Filtration 2 (4/4 = 1x2.5 = 2.5NP). Photosynthesis 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 1. Support 1. Toughness 3. UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Wait for food. 2. Food > Filter with tentacles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Polyps retreat into corallites. 5. Maturity + Early Spring Full Moon > Release gametes.  5. Daylight > Polyps retreat into corallites.

External Features: Each polyp, a cylindrical organism, has a corallite in which it sits, joined to the calcium carbonate skeleton secreted by each of them. The polyps have tentacles with nematocysts. They are joined by a skin. The colony is the shape of a fan, is joined to rock by a holdfast and has red melanin pigmentation in the skin.

Internal Features: Each cell has piezolytes and the outer ones contain photosynthetic bacteria. A nerve net circles through each polyp and they have muscles to pull themselves back into the corallite. They also have an incomplete digestive system and in the body wall are gonads.

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

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Calcium Carbonate Skeleton (10NP, +3 Toughness, +1 Support). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Nematocysts (5NP, +1 Sharpness). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Holdfast (2NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Photosynthetic Bacteria (1NP, +1 Photosynthesis). Nerve Net (10NP, +1 Coordination). Retreat Mechanism (4NP, +Retreat Into Self). Incomplete Digestive System (15NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Liquid Excretion, +Solid Excretion, +Reversible Guts). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilisation).

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

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Nyctopolypus tropicae

Classification: Scleracludasidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle