Bohadschia marmorata

Marble sea cucumber ( Bohadschia marmorata )

The Marbled sea cucumber sea cucumber or marble ( Bohadschia marmorata ) comes in the Red Sea and the western Indo-Pacific from the coast of East Africa, north to Japan and east to the islands of the South Pacific before. She lives between coral rubble or coarse sand bottoms at depths of 4-20 meters. During the day it hides under coral and is active at night.

Features

The marble sea cucumber is 40 inches long, her body is cylindrical. You make in the course of their lives by a color change. Young sea cucumbers are uniformly brown to olive green. They hide during the day in the sand and are exclusively nocturnal. The basic color of adult sea cucumber marble is brown or yellow. The top is patterned with thousands of small black dots, it can also be great brown spots may be present. The mouth is down, facing the ground, the anus is slightly raised. He is deposed bright.

The marble sea cucumber feeds by absorbing sand, digesting the organic particles, detritus and micro-organisms, and the rest is eliminated again. For the enemy defenses it has sticky, light blue Cuvier hoses.

About the multiplication of the marble sea cucumber is not known. When Amber Fish it comes to the trepang market.