It has no tube feet and no respiratory organs at all: it breathes through its skin and moves by crawling through contractions of the body wall.
From Snake Sea Cucumber
Its skin grips the hand like adhesive tape thanks to microscopic carbonate anchors embedded in the body wall.
From Snake Sea Cucumber
It can break apart if handled, and some fragments are able to regenerate a complete animal.
From Snake Sea Cucumber
It feeds like an anemone rather than like a burrowing sea cucumber: it spreads its branched tentacles into the current and puts them into its mouth in turn, cleaning each of the particles it has caught.
From Orange-footed Sea Cucumber
It supports a growing fishery in Canada, Iceland and Norway, driven by Asian demand, on a species that grows slowly and matures late.
From Orange-footed Sea Cucumber
It undergoes seasonal evisceration: it expels its internal organs and regrows them, a process tied to the annual feeding cycle.
From Orange-footed Sea Cucumber
A single spawning in captivity can produce several million eggs, though only a tiny fraction survive to the juvenile stage.
From Golden Sandfish
It eats decaying organic matter and micro-organisms sifted from the sediment.
From Golden Sandfish

Ecosystems