Lancella

## Lancella astatheana

Latest Mutations: Grasping Spines

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean

Niche: Predator

Size: 2mm

Nutritional Need: 141 x 0.2/100 = 0.3NP.

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 0.3 x 0.25 = 0.1NP per round (Needs to intake 0.1/0.7 = 0.1NP per round)/ 0.3 x 0.9 = 0.3NP

Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Solid Excretion.

Perception: Sight 1 (sees blurrily from the sides, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth).

Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 0. Immunity 2. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 2. Strength 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Support 1. Tunnelling 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move away. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move. Mating hormones + own species chemicals = reproduce. Move signal in water = hyponome boost and paddle with fan tail. Move signal against a surface = peristalsis. ??? = move towards, grab in spines, impale with beak.

External Features: It has a cylindrical body. The skin has blue irridiphore pigmentation. It has a mouth with a sharp beak, along with grasping spines, and around it are a few chemoreceptors. On either side of the head is two pairs of pinhole eyes. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome.

Internal Features: 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 a gonad and a protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered oily swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a monogastric digestive system. A gland releases a foul fluid into the body fluids. 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). Paddling, Hyponome Boosting. Peristalsis.

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Sharp Beak (4NP, +1 Sharpness, +1 Pierce Strength, -1 Filtration). Grasping Spines (4NP, +1 Dexterity). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Pinhole Eye (2NP, +1 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Fan Tail (4NP, +1 Swim Speed, +Paddling). Hyponome (7NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Open Circulatory System (3NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilization). Oily Swim Bladder (7NP, +1 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy). 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). Centralised Nervous System (19NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response, +Subconscious Functions, +Body Movement Control).

Temporal Range: R.197 - Present (Astathean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Elinopterus oviphagus

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle