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What reef animal comes in a rainbow of crazy colors, can throw out its innards to immobilize predators, then creep away and regrow a brand-new stomach? It’s the sea cucumber, prized as a gastronomic delight by some cultures and beginning to yield some of its secrets to scientists. Follow host Ari Daniel Shapiro from a Chinatown market to the reefs of Fiji to learn more about this amazing creature.
read moreDuration: 4:10Published: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:02:25 +0000
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Paracentrotus lividus at Aquarium Finisterrae, Corunna, Galicia, Spain (5 December 2007)
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Plankton Chronicles Project by Christian Sardet, CNRS / Noe Sardet and Sharif Mirshak, Parafilms
See Plankton Chronicles interactive site: http://www.planktonchronicles.org
[taxonomy:binomial=Paracentrotus lividus]
[taxonomy:kingdom=Animalia]
[taxonomy:phylum=Echinodermata]
[taxonomy:class=Echinoidea]
[taxonomy:order=Camarodonta]
[taxonomy:family=Parechinidae]
[taxonomy:genus=Paracentrotus]
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Holothuroidea (sea cucumber) collected during andeep3, station 150, depth -2000 m
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A purple-spined sea urchin (Arbacia punctulata) at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, l ocated 70 to 115 miles off the coast of Texas and Louisiana (
NOAA picture).