Scientific name: Holothuroidea
Adaptations: An interesting adaptation is how the Sea Cucumber is able to escape a possible threat. When they are threatened, some sea cucumbers are able to discharge sticky webs to entangle their enemies from movement towards them. Other sea cucumbers can mutilate their own bodies as a defense mechanism. The sea cucumber contracts their muscles and send some of their internal organs out of their anus. The missing body parts are able to quickly regenerated.
Habitat: The Sea Cucumber lives in many different areas but most frequently found in tropical coral reefs. The sea cucumber can happily live in the deepest part of the ocean or the more shallow areas. However they avoid areas with high current.
Endangered/ threatened: Sea Cucumbers are an endangered species. Although there are many different types of sea cucumber they are hunted by not only predators of the ocean but humans as well. In parts of Asia the different types of sea cucumber are considered a delicacy and farmed because of it.
Interesting facts: There are over a thousand different kinds of Sea Cucumbers.
Why did you choose this organism? I chose the Sea Cucumber because of its unique span of size. The Sea Cucumber can be as small as less than an inch to over seven feet long.
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