Image of peppered sea cucumber
Description:
While feeding, this sea cucumber sequentially folds up its tentacles and thrusts an arm into the mouth to lick off entrapped plankton.
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 piperata (peppered sea cucumber)
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- 2006 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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