Image of Orange Sea Cucumber
Description:
Photographed at 20 m depth. To feed, this sea cucumber sequentially places one arm with it's sticky tentacles and entrapped planktonic material within the mouth, licks off the food, extends the arm, and then repeats the process.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Echinodermata (echinoderms)
- Echinozoa
- Holothuroidea (sea cucumbers)
- Dendrochirotida
- Cucumariidae (cucumariid sea cucumbers)
- Cucumaria
- Cucumaria miniata (Orange Sea Cucumber)
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Source Information
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- cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
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- 2006 California Academy of Sciences
- photographer
- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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