Filtering Sea Cucumbers

Colochirus sp. is not the primary subject of the video clip; the primary subject is Pseudocolochirus violaceaus (Sea apple). Indo-Pacific, Duration 34 seconds

Coral Sea, Duration 59 seconds

Lophothuria fabrieti, showing under surface with three rows of ambulacra.

Cucumaria frondosa side view (65), dorsal view (66); Thyone briareus dorsal view (67); Thyone unisemita side view (68), ventral view (69); Cucumaria pulcherrima side view (70); thyone scabra side view of a young specimen (71); trochostoma ovliticum side view of contracted alcoholic specimen (72); Caudina arenata side view of contracted alcoholic specimen (73); Synapta inhaerens dorsal view (74); Synapta roseola dorsal view (75).

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Illinois

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 23 seconds

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 39 seconds

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 31 seconds

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 30 seconds

Photographed at 20 m depth. To feed, this sea cucumber sequentially places one arm with it's sticky tentacles and entrapped planktonic material within the mouth, licks off the food, extends the arm, and then repeats the process.

Males and females spawn synchronously in the Spring as they extend their bodies from the rocks. The eggs are toxic to fish.

red sea cucumber

red sea cucumber

sea cucumber

While feeding, this sea cucumber sequentially folds up its tentacles and thrusts an arm into the mouth to lick off entrapped plankton.

Large burrowing Sea Cucumber; Neothyonidium magnum

Large burrowing Sea Cucumber; Neothyonidium magnum

Large burrowing Sea Cucumber; Neothyonidium magnum