Murenoides

## Murenoides velocaudatus

Latest Mutations: Improve Smell, Heart, Gill Rakers

This mostly transparent eel-like animal swam through the waterways of Olympia, filtering the water with it's gills, using gill rakers. It could find food better than it's predecessors because it had a better sense of smell. There was also a heart. It had no predators in Olympia.

Status: Extinct (Outcompeted)

Habitat: Fresh and Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens

Niche: Filter-Feeder and Corpse Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 7cm (length - head to tail)

Nutritional Need: 152 x 7/100 = 10.6NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 10.6 x 0.25 = 2.7NP per round (Needs to intake 2.7/0.7 = 3.9NP per round)/ 10.6 x 0.9 = 9.5NP

Abilities: Absorbent Skin. Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoregulation (Freshwater). Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Smell 2 (detects odours 5m away). Chemoreception 1 (detects chemicals 1m away). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Can sense direction of light from head. Sight 0.5. (Blurry sight above).

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Immunity 2. Filtration 2 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Respiration 2 (Stationary Ventilation, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Stamina 4. Strength 2. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 0.3. Support 1. Toughness 0 (1 - spine). UV Resistance 2. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.

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

External Features: The tapering body has mostly transparent skin containing food-absorbing proteins and blue melanin pigments around the head an organs and starts with a mouth surrounded by odour receptors. On top of the head is a pair of pinhole eyes and three gill slits with gill rakers sit behind the head which use cilia to capture food. There is a line of electroreceptors along the body, where there is also a pair of pectoral ray-fins.

Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. It has a hemacoel and dorsal pump vessel that circulates blood, red because of hemoglobin, as well as a system of muscles. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the oily swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a single nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. A cartilage vertebra runs along the back.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Moves body side to side in an anguillaform motion (+1 Stamina).

External Features: Tapering Body (0NP, +Anguillaform). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Gills w/ gill rakers (7NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +1 Filtration, +Only Works Underwater). Pectoral Fin (4NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.2 Walk Speed, -0.2 Swim Speed, +Paddling, +Crawling). Skin (6NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin, +Absorbent Skin). Electroreceptors (2NP, +1 Electroreception). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Odour Receptors (2NP, +2 Smell). Pinhole Eyes (2NP, +0.5 Sight).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Open Circulatory System w/ Pump Vessel (10NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +2 Stamina). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (18NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination). Oily Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilisation). Large Nephridium (19NP, +Liquid Excretion, +Osmoregulation). Cartilage Vertebrae (10NP, +1 Toughness, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +1 Swim Agility, +1 Walk Agility).

Temporal Range: R. 228 - R.245 (Atrobocean to Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Olympia

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Ichthyotelus tralucidus

Classification: Charitomenchelusinae (sf), Charitomenchelusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle