Brachiopherus

## Brachiopherus pugilus

Latest Mutations: Chelipeds

This is a predatory arthropod native to tropical ocean, which has lobes instead of legs like an Anomalocaris, as well as mandibles with a venomous bite. This particular species has evolved chelipeds.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Predator

Size: 12cm

Nutritional Need: 211 x 12/100 = 24.7NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 24.7 x 0.25 = 6.2NP per round (Needs to intake 6.2/0.7 = 8.9NP per round)/ 24.7 x 0.9 = 22.2NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (High Salinity). Solid Excretion. Xenoarthropodusin Toxin.

Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 0. Immunity 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 4. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 3.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move. Mating hormones + own species chemicals = reproduce. Move signal = hyponome boost, lobe undulation and paddle with fan tail. ??? = move towards, close mandibles over it.

External Features: It has a cylindrical body which has an exoskeleton. The skin has blue melanin pigmentation. In front of the circular mouth are mandibles and around it are a few chemoreceptors. On either side of the head is a large camera eye with calcite lens that changes shape and has no blind spot and a typical apposition compound eye, which both contain blue and green cone cells. There is a pair of chelipeds. It has a series of lobes at its sides. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome.

Internal Features: The body is segmented. It has aquatic spiracles. It has a hemacoel, carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a system of muscles. It has gonads and a large 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 it also has a neurotoxin gland, containing Xenoarthropodusin. 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: Active (20NP). Undulation, Hyponome Boosting.

External Features: Exoskeleton (10NP, +2 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Respiration, -1 Stamina, +Moults, -Cutaneous Respiration, -Permeable Skin, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Mandibles (5NP, +3 Pierce Strength, +1 Digestion, +1 Dexterity, +1 Reach, -1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Camera Eye w/ blue and green cone cells (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision, +Blue Perception, +Green Perception). Compound Eye w/ blue and green cone cells (11NP, +1 Wide Vision, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision, +Blue Perception). Chela (5NP, +1 Dexterity, +3 Pierce Strength, +1 Reach). Lobes (5NP, +1 Swim Speed, +1 Swim Stability, +Undulation). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Closed Circulatory System (10NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Aquatic Spiracles (0NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilization). Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Large Nephridium (19NP, +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, "Xenoarthropodusin Toxin"). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control).

Temporal Range: R.211 - Present (Agentian Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Dinocaroides tropicae

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle