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Eyed Sea Cucumber
Bohadschia argus
13.8, 120.91
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.
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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