Synaptula

Synaptula Lamperti

Synaptula is a genus of small, worm -like sea cucumbers that live as commensals on other invertebrates, mainly on sponges, but also on sea fans, large fleshy algae, and coralline algae. The different types often live only on a particular host and can be determined in some cases by the host species is determined. Synaptula species take on sediments, which adhere to their host and feed on microscopic algae and diatoms contained therein. In addition, they also take other organic particles, possibly even excretions on.

Its distribution area is located in the tropical Indo-Pacific, with a focus to Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia. But even in the Maldives, Japan, and the Micronesian islands, the animals were found. They live in shallow water at depths of one to 50 meters. The body of the Synaptula species is slender, worm-like, elongated and sticky by sclerites in the skin. They are usually bright or whitish, rarely brownish colored. They are two to eight inches long. Your body end can be rounded or leak in a long, thread-like tip.

Species

  • Synaptula bandae Heding, 1928
  • Synaptula denticulata Heding, 1928
  • Synaptula hydriformis ( Lesueur, 1824)
  • Synaptula indivisa Semper, 1868
  • Synaptula Heding Lamperti, 1928
  • Synaptula media Cherbonnier & Féral, 1984
  • Synaptula Psara Sluiter, 1888
  • Synaptula secreta Lopez, 1957
  • Synaptula spinifera Massin & Tomascik, 1996
  • Synaptula striata Sluiter, 1888
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