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Eyed Sea Cucumber

Bohadschia argus

Photo by Eric Noora
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Field Notes

Description:

Bohadschia argus is sausage-shaped with a smooth, tough, leathery skin and can grow to 2 feet (0.61 m) in length. It is a greyish-brown colour, paler below, with distinctive dark eye-spots surrounded by white haloes. There are several rows of tube feet on the underside. Surrounding the mouth at the anterior end is a ring of paddle-shaped, black tentacles fringed with white. The anus, at the posterior end, has Cuvierian tubules situated at its base which are readily ejected as sticky threads if the animal is disturbed or handled. These contain toxins which deter predators and are irritating to human skin.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohadschia_argus

Habitat:

Coral reefs and on exposed, sandy areas of the seabed

Notes:

Spotted at the Classroom, a sandy portion of Dive and Trek House Reef at a depth of about 5m.

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Fun fact! The sea cucumber may not look like an organism with super powers, but it has the ability to loosen or tighten its body wall, which is formed of collagen, at will. This enables it to evade predators by liquefying and “pouring” itself through small cracks, and then reverting to its normal form so that it cannot be extracted. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152806026080603&set=a.10152575329380603.958289.10150120463815603&type=1 https://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/332951109645762561

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