sea cucumber

  • Pineapple Sea Cucumber

    Pineapple Sea Cucumber

    I don’t know why Sea Cucumbers fascinate me. But they seem to stop me when I see them underwater. Thelenota ananas, also known as pineapple sea cucumber, oloturia ananas, tripang, prickly skin cucumber, pointed teat sea cucumber, armoured sea cucumber, giant sea cucumber, sand fish or prickly redfish is a species of sea cucumber. I…

  • Weird Wildlife Wednesday : Graeffe’s Sea Cucumber

    Weird Wildlife Wednesday : Graeffe’s Sea Cucumber

    Graeffe’s Sea Cucumber (Pearsonothuria graeffei) is found in the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean. Pearsonothuria graeffei is a scavenger and roams around on the seabed sifting through sediment with its feeding tentacles. Pearsonothuria graeffei is a roughly cylindrical, thin-walled sea cucumber that grows to about 12 inches in length. Its mouth is surrounded by a ring of up to 24 leaf-like, paddle-shaped…