Glutinovermis

## Glutinovermis primus

Latest Mutations: Heart, Tropical Tolerance, Larvae

This is a blue, elongated, cylindrical animal that lives in tunnels carved into rock by acid. It sticks to the end of the rock with a sticky pad and lives it's life there, filtering passing food with cirri. This particular species lives in the tropics and has a pump vessel. It also has larvae that crawl across the seafloor to find a place to settle.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Filter-Feeder

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 15cm (length - cirri to end)

Nutritional Need: 123 x 7.5/100 = 9.2NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 9.2 x 0.25 = 2.3NP per round (Needs to intake 2.3/0.6 = 3.8NP per round) / 9.2NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. "Entaopsin" Toxin - Quickly Fatal Neurotoxin. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Small-Body Circulation. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth).

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Immunity 2. Filtration 2.5. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 1. Tunnelling 2. UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed 0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Wait for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Retreat into burrow. 5. Maturity and Late Spring > Reproduce.

External Features: The elongated, cylindrical body has skin with blue melanin pigment and begins with a mouth surrounded by long cirri and chemoreceptors. At the end of the bodies an acid-producing gland and a holdfast.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. A gland on the skin secretes a foul fluid and a neurotoxin. The body has a hemacoel connected to a dorsal vessel and a few small blood vessels from the gills and a protonephridium. The blood is blue-green because it contains hemocyanin as well as an anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide. There is a system of muscles across the body. On the lower half of the body are gonads. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off.

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

Castes/Phases: None. Larval Phase until 10% developed: Larval C. have no acid-producing gland, gonads or holdfast. (Changes - Benthic Filter-Feeder. 120 x size = NP. -Sexual Reproduction, Viscosity 0. Wriggling. Hungry > Search for food. Pain > Wriggle away. Active. Peristalsis).

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Elongated Body (0NP, +1 Tunnelling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Long Cirri (7NP, +1.5 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +2 Chemoreception). Acid Gland (7NP). Holdfast (2NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Hydrostatic Skeleton (3NP, +1 Tunnelling, +1 Support, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +Peristalsis). Open Circulatory System w/ pump vessel (10NP, +Small-Body Circulation, +2 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilzation). Foul Fluid Gland (7NP, +Foul Taste). Neurotoxin Gland (7NP, +"Entaopsin" Toxin).

Temporal Range: R.234 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Petrovermes versifilius

Classification: Oxyskulusinae (sf), Entaopsidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle