Xenoides

## Xenoides oceanus

Latest Mutations: Lose Pinhole Eyes

Xenoides oceanus is a peculiar anima bit like a tunicate but with anomalies added to the body plan. Like tunicates it is a filter-feeder. Unlike it's predecessor, this species has no pinhole eyes.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Temperate Ocean

Niche: Benthic Filter Feeder

Size: 7cm (height)

Nutritional Need: 105 x 7/100 = 7.4NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 7.4 x 0.25 = 1.9NP per round (Needs to intake 1.9/0.65 = 0.3NP per round)/ 7.4 x 0.9 = 6.7NP

Abilities: Air Space. Anti-Freeze. Buoyancy. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Excretion. Toxin. Subzero Metabolism. UV Resistance, Dark.

Perception: Chemoreception 0.5.

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 0.5. (100% Meat, 65%). Dexterity 0.5. Filtration 3. Immunity 0.5. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration, 90%). Support 1.5. Stamina 2.5. Strength 0.5. Toughness 1. Tunnelling 0.5. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > N/A. 2. Food > Filter. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > N/A. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: It has a cylindrical body. The skin has blue irridiphore pigmentation. It has a mouth with cirri and around it are a few chemoreceptors. There is an exit hole near to the mouth.

Internal Features: There is a muscular pharynx. There is a big opening in the middle covered in a mucus net. It has a hemocoel carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a hydrostatic skeleton. It has gonads and a protonephridium. There is an 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 another releases toxins. 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: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Tunic (10NP, +1 Toughness, +1 Support). Skin (5NP, +0.5 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +0.5 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigments (2.5NP, +Medium UV Resistance). Cirri (5NP, +0.5 Filtration, +0.5 Dexterity). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2.5NP, +0.5 Chemoreception).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (2.5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (2.5NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Muscular Pharynx (5NP, +1 Filtration). Mucus Net (2.5NP, +0.5 Filtration). Open Circulatory System (10NP, +2 Stamina, +Small-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2.5NP, +Anti-Freeze). Hydrostatic Skeleton (10NP, +0.5 Tunnelling, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Strength). Gonads (5NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation). Swim Bladder (5NP, +Buoyancy, +Air Space). Nephridium (5NP, +Liquid Excretion). Monogastric Digestive System (10NP, +0.5 Meat Digestion, +0.5 Veg Digestion, +0.5 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Foul Fluid Gland (5NP, +Foul Taste). Toxin Gland (5NP, +Toxin). Centralised Nervous System (10NP, +2 Coordination).

Temporal Range: R. 271 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Tunisoma tunisoma

Classification: Tunisominae (sf), Oxyskulusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle