Pictolexipotus

## Pictolexipotus cerritus

Status: LC

Timespan: R.76 - Present

Habitat: Deep Ocean, Mid Ocean, Ocean Surface, Shallow Sea

Distribution: All Deep Ocean, Polar & Temperate Ocean Surface & Seas

Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder

Nutritional Value: 7.4

Size: 2cm

Predecessor: Glistroskulus challengeri

Classification: Pictolexipotusae, Squickidea, Membrania

Latest Mutations: Jelly Umbrella, Cillia

Info: This is the most widespread animal on the planet, thriving from the depths of polar ocean trenches to the surface of shallow, temperate seas. It is suspended in water and kept from sinking by the umbrella jelly structure on its face. Therefore, it constantly hangs vertically, filtering falling microbial marine snow into its mouth, moving if it has to by the use of its many cillia. The main reason for its far-reach is its simplicity.

Description: The yellow, tubular body has a fleshy membrane running along the top and underside with thousands of tiny, beating cillia. An umbrella-shape of jelly stretches out from the face, with a hole in the middle for the mouth. Chemoreceptors sit by the mouth with three gill slits at the back of the head. On top is a singular pinhole eye covered by a lens. At the front of its nervous system, is a tiny brain. Its mouth has a primitive gut leading straight to the anus. An open circulatory system bathes organs and muscles in hemacoel; this contains anti-freeze proteins to stop bodily fluids from freezing.

Previous Mutations: Muscles, Membrane, Cup Eyes, Chemoreceptors, Basic Instincts, Gills (3), Yellow Pigmentation, Teeth, Open Circulatory System, Pinhole Eyes, Immune System, Anti-freeze proteins, Notochord (L), Lens

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Pictolexipotus communus

Timespan: Cinisian stage of the Atroxian to the Novaglacian stage of the Untrustolithic (R.89 - R.106)

Habitat: Tropical Deep Ocean (below the thermocline), Temperate & Polar Deep Ocean, Temperate & Polar Open Ocean, Temperate & Polar Shallows

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder

Size: 2.3cm (length)

Predecessor: Pictolexipotus cerritus

Classification: Pictolexipotusidae, Parusolvida, Tubulacea

Latest Mutations: Genders, More Gills

Info: This was a very widespread animal, thriving from the depths of polar ocean trenches to the surface of shallow, temperate seas. It was suspended in water and kept from sinking by the umbrella jelly structure on its face. Therefore, it constantly hung vertically, filtering falling microbial marine snow into its mouth, moving if it had to by the use of its many cilia. The main reason for its far-reach was its simplicity. It also had separated into two genders. It went extinct went it was outcompeted by its descendants, Masticephalus multiminimacrura.

Description: The yellow, tubular body has a fleshy membrane running along the top and underside with thousands of tiny, beating cilia. An umbrella-shape of jelly stretches out from the face, with a hole in the middle for the mouth, with needle-sharp teeth. Chemoreceptors sit by the mouth with six gill slits at the back of the head. Near the top is a singular pinhole eye covered by a lens. At the front of its nervous system, is a tiny brain. Its mouth has a primitive gut leading straight to the anus. An open circulatory system bathes organs and muscles in hemacoel; this contains anti-freeze proteins to stop bodily fluids from freezing.

Cause of Extinction: Outcompeted

Discoverer: StealthStyle