What The?

[abiasin]

Hi all,

we caught 3 of these things in botany on boxing day, anyone have any clue what they are.

Cheers all.

[luderick59]

aliens have landed

peter

[Guest]

Looks like a sea cucumber,

Sea cucumbers are echinoderms. Sea cucumbers are sausage shaped, and their skin is covered with warty bumps or soft spines. When threatened, cucumbers can contract their muscles and shoot out water from their body making them shorter, thicker, and harder. Some can even shoot out their insides and then go and grow new insides.

Sea cucumbers have hundreds of tiny suction-cup tube feet that they use to crawl across the sea floor. Three common sea cucumbers are the warty sea cucumber, the California cucumber, and the white star cucumber. Warty sea cucumbers are chestnut brown with black-tipped "warts" all over their bodies. Warty sea cucumbers grow up to ten inches long. California sea cucumbers are brown to reddish-brown and are covered with pointed, cone-shaped projections. The California sea cucumber grows up to sixteen inches long. The white sea cucumber is light orange to white with long, nonretractable spines covering their bodies. White sea cucumbers grow up to four inches long.

Diet dead and decaying organic material, algae, tiny plankton

Size up to 16 inches

Color Warty sea cucumbers - chestnut brown

California sea cucumbers - brown to reddish-brown

White sea cucumber - light orange to white

Life Cycle

Predators

Neat Facts When they are scared, some cucumbers throw out their sticky internal organs to distract any predators. Then they can grow new innards!

Types California, sweet potato, warty, white, orange, slipper

Relatives sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars .

Cheers Stewy

[abiasin]

Looks like a sea cucumber

thats what i thought but it was only a guess, i'll go with you on it as the boys on the boat had a distinctly different name for it hahahahahahahaha.

Edited December 27, 2007 by Kingies till i die

[Penguin]

We got a few of them in Botany also on boxing day, didnt do

to well on the fish though only 4 keepers.

penguin

Edited December 29, 2007 by penguin

[fishguts]

Looks like a sea cucumber,

Sea cucumbers are echinoderms. Sea cucumbers are sausage shaped, and their skin is covered with warty bumps or soft spines. When threatened, cucumbers can contract their muscles and shoot out water from their body making them shorter, thicker, and harder. Some can even shoot out their insides and then go and grow new insides.

Sea cucumbers have hundreds of tiny suction-cup tube feet that they use to crawl across the sea floor. Three common sea cucumbers are the warty sea cucumber, the California cucumber, and the white star cucumber. Warty sea cucumbers are chestnut brown with black-tipped "warts" all over their bodies. Warty sea cucumbers grow up to ten inches long. California sea cucumbers are brown to reddish-brown and are covered with pointed, cone-shaped projections. The California sea cucumber grows up to sixteen inches long. The white sea cucumber is light orange to white with long, nonretractable spines covering their bodies. White sea cucumbers grow up to four inches long.

Diet dead and decaying organic material, algae, tiny plankton

Size up to 16 inches

Color Warty sea cucumbers - chestnut brown

California sea cucumbers - brown to reddish-brown

White sea cucumber - light orange to white

Life Cycle

Predators

Neat Facts When they are scared, some cucumbers throw out their sticky internal organs to distract any predators. Then they can grow new innards!

Types California, sweet potato, warty, white, orange, slipper

Relatives sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars .

Cheers Stewy

are they good in a salad stewy

..cheers!..stevo!..