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Sea Cucumbers
Sea cucumbers are found in oceans across the world. They are a long tubular echinoderm. They come in a variety of sizes and colors.
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What does a sea cucumber taste like?
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It is hard to define the taste of a cucumber. A cucumber is mainly very watery and juicy and the seeds give it a hint of freshness. They have a bitter, slightly watery taste.
How do sea cucumbers protect themselves?
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Sea cucumbers defend themselves in a quite unique/unusual manner. Basically the animal shoots poisonous darts from their anus! The darts are actually part of the animals respiratory system that is not necessary to sustain it's life and will grow back, but allows the creatures to avoid attack from some of the nastier predators in the sea, and in a quite unique way!
How many eggs does a sea cucumber lay at a time?
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Sea-monkeys can have 20 eggs at a time, but only about 15 of those eggs will hatch, and 10 of those 15 will survive and become adult sea-monkeys. thanks!
How do sea cucumbers obtain food?
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Sea cucumbers generally defend themselves by spitting out their viscera and shooting themselves away, in the hope that whatever predator was bothering them would be too distracted by the viscera to continue chasing them.
What family does the sea cucumber belong to?
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Kingdom: Animalia,
Phylum: Echinodermata,
SubPhylum: Echinozoa,
Class: Holothuroidea,
There are several subclasses of sea cucumber. so, the order, family, genus and species can't be ascertained.
What is a collective name for a sea cucumbers?
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A pickle of sea cucumbers.
Additional information:
Section:Animals without backbonesKingdom:AnimaliaPhylum:EchinodermataClass:Holothuroidea
What type of food do sea cucumbers eat?
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How and what do they eat?
Sea cucumbers are almost all detritivores. This means that they eat the tiny scrap particles that are usually abundant in the environments that they inhabit. There are two basic modes of feeding among sea cucumbers. "Direct deposit feeding" is one method which is seen in many surface dwelling and burrowing species. In this feeding method, sea cucumbers literally wipe their tentacles over the sediments to pick up tiny particles that settle there from the water above. Sea cucumbers are efficient direct deposit feeders. The fact that fecal pellets (poo) are richer in terms of energy and nutrients than the surrounding sediments that sea cucumbers eat is testimony to this fact. The other mode of feeding is the suspension feeding. Suspension feeding sea cucumbers have finely diverticulating buccal tentacles that are used to pick particles out of the water column during feeding.
Does a sea cucumber have eyes?
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I'm pretty sure they can't see at all, but they have other senses that help them move around and sense predators.
Are sea cucumbers sponges?
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No. Sea cucumbers are part of the Echindermata phylum along with sea stars and sea urchins.
Where does a Sea cucumber live?
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Sea Cucumbers grow in the 'sea-flower beds'. But these scavengers live worldwide (!) on the floors of the various oceans.
What type of symmetry does a sea cucumber have?
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Because most sea cucumbers crawl along the sea floor, the top surface is slightly different from the bottom one that is constantly pressed against the sea floor. Thus, there is a weak transverse bilateral symmetry.
What is a sea cucumber's scientific name?
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The name of the class that sea cucumbers belong to is Holothuroidea.
