Erythrocochlus

## Erythrocochlus temperatus

Latest Mutations: Temperate Tolerance, Move Chemoreceptors

This is a 'sea snail' that lives in the temperate oceans on both ends of the planet and is a slow-moving herbivore. This species has chemoreceptors on it's cirri. It has no natural predators.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean

Niche: Herbivore

Diet: Algae

Size: 5cm (length - front to back)

Nutritional Need: 149 x 5/100 = 7.5NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 7.5 x 0.25 = 1.9NP per round (Needs to intake 1.9/0.7 = 2.7NP per round)/ 7.5 x 0.9 = 6.8NP

Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Inflexible. Liquid Excretion. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

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

Stats: Buoyancy -1. Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 2. Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility -1. Swim Speed -0.5. Toughness 0 (3 - Shell). Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed 0.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with cirri and put in beak. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: The cylindrical body has skin with red melanin pigmentation. At the front are two retractable cirri with chemorceceptors, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a pair of camera eyes with a calcite lens that changes shape with no blind spot on retractable stalks, looking out to the sides. There are three gill slits either side of its head. It has a calcite, round shell on its back. The shell has a body space. There is a muscular foot with a mucus gland on it below.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. There is a radula in its mouth. The body has a hemacoel with a dorsal vessel and a few small blood vessels from the gills and saccate metanephridium. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. It has gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. From the ganglia in head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

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

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Wave Motion.

External Features: Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Shell (11NP, +3 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Buoyancy, -1 Swim Speed, -1 Swim Agility, -1 Walk Speed, +Inflexible, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Cirri (7NP, +1 Filtration). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Muscular Foot (3NP, +0.5 Walk Speed, +1 Tunnelling, +Wave Motion). Viscous Mucus Gland (7NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Radula (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength, +1 Sharpness). Open Circulatory System w/ Pump Vessel (10NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +2 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). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilisation).

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

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Compcyclus repus

Classification: Compcyclusinae (sf), Laevgastusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle