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Rob Toonen's comments about the defense mechanisms of sea cucumbers.
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Rob Toonen Cucumber Defenses Sea cuke defensive chemistry is pretty well known. There are a variety of saponins (soap-like chemicals) in the skin, and some more specific and toxic chemicals that are often specifically assciated with the Cuvierian tubules (these tubules are associated with...Images and brief information about this Chilean species (Dendrochirotida: Cucumariidae).
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Athyonidium chilensis (Dendrochirotida Cucumariidae) is distributed It has been collected in the exposed intertidal area between rocky pools, and from the sand where it extends its tentacles over the surface of the bottom. High biomass has also been found in the sandy subtidal area, though this...Description and interesting facts.
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Body wall soft rather than calcareous. Dioecious with a single gonad. Sedimentary feeders. Body surrounded by tube feet. Interior madreporite. Branched tentacles surrounding mouth that are lined with modified water vascular system. Description: The holothuroideans, commonly called sea cucumbers, are...1994 legal update from Galapagos Foundation on sea cucumber fishing.
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Fishing of the Sea Cucumber The fishing of the sea cucumbers in the Galápagos Islands is not a traditional activity. It started in 1988. The Ecuadorian Government recognizing the fast depredation of the sea cucumber, the alternation of ecological cycles, and because of the lack...Beachcomber column on the sea cucumber and sea cucumber fisheries in Australia.
http://www.wa.gov.au/westfish/wf/bc/bc97aut.html
Overview, including characteristics, taxonomy, phylogenetic relationships, and fossil history.
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Holothuroidea Go to navigation for this section of the ToL site Go to quick links Go to quick search Go to detailed site links Site Navigation Browse Help Features Learning Contribute About advanced go to beginning of page ToL-Reviewed Containing Groups..."It's the quiet ones you have to watch." Short article from Diver, 1997, on the defense mechanisms and anal cavities of sea cucumbers.
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British Whales and Dolphins Stand by to feel your flesh creep as we examine the lifestyle of a seaslug which turns inside-out all your ideas about the way things are done in polite society. The sea cucumber breathes through its anus, entertains visitors in...A photograph and brief description of sea cucumbers.
http://www.old.umassd.edu/Public...Kamaral/thesis/SeaCucumbers.html
Photos taken in South East Asia, with text about behavior, habitat, and characteristics.
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Sea Cucumbers (Echinoderms Photos Seewalzen (Stachelhäuter) Back to the main page with photos of echinoderms Text about echinoderms Zurck zur Hauptseite mit Fotos von Stachelhutern Information ber Seewalzen To look at the enlarged photo please click on the thumb nail photo. Some photos have explanatory texts....Detailed anatomy of this common sea cucumber (holothuroid) occurring in shallow water on the east coast of North America (Dendrochirotida: Sclerodactylidae).
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Sclerodactyla Internet laboratory manual for courses in Invertebrate Zoology. Additional exercises can be accessed by clicking on the link. A glossary and chapters on supplies and laboratory techniques are also available through this link. Terminology and phylogeny used in these exercises...Philip Lambert's article for the Royal British Columbia Museum about his research on the natural history of sea cucumbers.
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Research Papers Sea Cucumbers Taxing Problems They sprout from beneath rocks like orange carnations, ooze along the bottom at the speed of an hour-hand, or slurp their way through rich organic mud. They are everywhere from the intertidal zone to the deepest parts of the ocean....