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Conspicuous Sea Cucumber

Opheodesoma spectabilis

Photo by SargonR
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Field Notes

Description:

Conspicuous Sea Cucumber spotted near the USS Utah Memorial in Pearl Harbor (Mamala Bay), off Ford Island, Oahu, Hawaii.

Notes:

There were a bunch of these red lumpy "worms" in the water near where I spotted the Feather Duster Worms.

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Conspicuous Sea Cucumber, Opheodesoma spectabilis

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
SargonR
Strange looking one, right? Took a long time to ID because I assumed it was a sea worm. There were probably around 20 of them in the area marked on the map that day.

Spotted for Missions

Mission
Global Coral Reef Monitoring
Mission
Underwater Hawai'i
Achilles Tang
O'ahu, Hawai'i
Mission
National Geographic's Great Nature Project

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PublishedMay 20, 2014

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