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Warty Sea Cucumber |
| Sea cucumbers are echinoderms. Sea cucumbers
are sausage shaped, and their skin is covered with warty bumps
or soft spines. When threatened, cucumbers can contract their
muscles and shoot out water from their body making them shorter,
thicker, and harder. Some can even shoot out their insides and
then go and grow new insides. |
| Sea cucumbers have
hundreds of tiny suction-cup tube feet that they use to crawl
across the sea floor. Three common sea cucumbers are the warty
sea cucumber, the California cucumber, and the white star cucumber.
Warty sea cucumbers are chestnut brown with black-tipped "warts"
all over their bodies. Warty sea cucumbers grow up to ten inches
long. California sea cucumbers are brown to reddish-brown and
are covered with pointed, cone-shaped projections. The California
sea cucumber grows up to sixteen inches long. The white sea cucumber
is light orange to white with long, nonretractable spines covering
their bodies. White sea cucumbers grow up to four inches long. |
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| Diet |
dead and decaying organic material, algae, tiny
plankton |
| Size |
up to 16 inches |
| Color |
| Warty sea cucumbers - chestnut brown |
| California sea cucumbers - brown to reddish-brown |
| White sea cucumber - light orange to white |
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| Life Cycle |
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| Neat Facts |
When they are scared, some cucumbers throw out their sticky
internal organs to distract any predators. Then they can grow
new innards! |
| Types |
California, sweet potato, warty, white, orange, slipper |
| Relatives |
sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars |
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our Sea Cucumber Quiz! |
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Our Crossword
Puzzle about Sea Cucumbers |
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