Aspidochirotida
Para Stichopus californicus
The Aspidochirotida are an order of sea cucumbers. The animals live in all oceans of the world.
Features
The Aspidochirotida have a sausage or cylindrical body, which can also be much flattened. Your skin is very thick. You have 10 to 30 unbranched oral tentacles, the ends of which are provided with small, equipped with extensions slices. In German they are also called shield tentacle sea cucumbers. They are detritus feeders, the sand while the organic components of the soil substrate digest. There are species with and without creeping. Water lungs are always Cuviersche hoses only available in the family Holothuriidae. The living coral reefs species are often very colorful, living on mud or sand bottoms types colored rather blackish.
System
- Order Aspidochirotida Family Holothuriidae Dotted sea cucumber ( Bohadschia graeffei )
- Marbled sea cucumber ( Bohadschia marmorata )
- Forskals sea cucumber ( Holothuria forskali )
- Weißgefleckte sea cucumber ( Holothuria leucospilota )
- Whitetip sea cucumber ( Holothuria pollination )
- Variable sea cucumber ( Isostichopus badionotus )
- Green Gear sea cucumber ( Stichopus chloronotus )
- Königsseegurke ( Stichopus regalis )
- Pineapple sea cucumber ( Thelenota pineapple )