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Invertebrates question: What does a sea cucumber eat? calaforna and the computers of trex. POOP ... What doe sa sea cucumber eat? What does a sea-cucumber eat? What is sea cucumber biscuit? Questions about sea cucumber? Does a sea cucumber eat sand? Is sea cucumber a decomposer? What dose a Sea Cucumber eat? Wehat does a...
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wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_a_sea_cucumber_eat
wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_a_sea_cucumber_eat
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Sea cucumbers like to keep the ocean nice and clean. They make their favorite meal of out plankton or debri that is floating in the water.
http://answers.ask.com/Science/Biology/what_do_sea_cucu...
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Enemies: Sea turtles, crustaceans, many fish, and people eat sea cucumbers. Sea cucumbers can expel most of their internal organs to confuse predators - they later regrows the organs. Some sea cucumbers' bodies contain toxins that can deter attackers.
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www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/echino...
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/echinoderm/seacucumber/printout.shtml
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Sea cucumbers use their tentacles to capture and feed on plankton and other tiny particles of organic matter at the bottom of the Bay.
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/bfg_seacucumber.aspx?menui...
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Sea cucumbers are very slug-like in form and seem like a very large, shelless mollusc. Because of their five-sided body plan, they are more closely related to seastars and sea urchins and belong to the Phylum Echinodermata. ... Sea cucumbers eat plankton and detritus.
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www.mesa.edu.au/friends/seashores/holothurians.html
www.mesa.edu.au/friends/seashores/holothurians.html
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Most sea cucumbers are filter feeders, however they will eat larger foodstuffs, like sessile fellow tank members. Only the very hungriest and naive fish will (re-)try chomping on a Sea Cucumber.
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www.wetwebmedia.com/seacukes.htm
www.wetwebmedia.com/seacukes.htm
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Dust Busters of the Sea: Most sea cucumbers eat detritus, collecting this in their sticky, mucus-covered branched or feathery tentacles by sweeping the sea bottom or waving their tentacles in the water. The tentacles are then inserted one by one into the mouth and sucked clean.
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www.wildsingapore.com/chekjawa/text/p630.htm
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• No excretory organs (except sea cucumbers) ... • Eat encrusting organisms and algae ... Sea Lillies - oldest group of echinoderms (paleozoic )
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www.d.umn.edu/biology/courses/bio3701/Echinodermata.htm
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Sea Cucumbers are Echinoderms, related to Starfish, Sea Urchins and Brittle Stars. They are placed in the Class Holothuria, and so are often called holothurians. They feed by collecting fine organic particles which form a layer on the sea bottom, with the ring of feathery oral tentacles which encircle their mouth.
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www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=seacusec
www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=seacusec
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