Warty Sea Cucumber — printable fact sheet
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Warty Sea Cucumber
Apostichopus parvimensis
The sea cucumber's principal defence is to throw its own internal organs at whatever is attacking it. Under serious threat it will violently expel part of its gut — and in some species a mass of sticky, thread-like tubules — through the anus or a rupture in the body wall, leavin…
Did you know?
- Warty Sea Cucumbers breathe through their anus, using a unique respiratory tree structure to extract oxygen from the water.
- Attacked, it expels its own internal organs to entangle the predator, then crawls away and regrows them. Its body is built from a tissue whose stiffness it can control, so it can turn nearly liquid, pour through a crack, and set solid again. It has no brain at all. It eats sediment, strips out the organic matter and excretes the sand clean, recycling the seabed.
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