Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber

Isostichopus badionotus

Sea cucumbers are the "earth worms" of the sea. Their role is to process food particles into fodder for bacteria. Sea Cucumbers are not a highly complex animal but they have a unique defense mechanism. They can eject their internal organs out their anus, (as a meal to satisfy a hungry predator) and regenerate them later.
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Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
This Sea Cucumber has little "legs", much like their cousins the sea star and the West Indian Sea Egg.
Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
Also called the Chocolate Chip Sea Cucumber!



Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
 
Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
The tell-tail sign a Sea Cucumber has been here.

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