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Friday, 6 March 2015

Red-lined Sea Cucumber

Image: Jan Messersmith
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Seriously. They're not joking about those red lines. This thing is covered in them!

It's like an entire barbershop quartet had an awful teleporter accident. And at such short notice, too...

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Not much is known about the Red-lined Sea Cucumber. It's big, growing to some 50 cm (20 in) long and... well, there's those red lines. It's their stand-out feature, so they're also known as Red-striped, Peppermint or Candycane Sea Cucumbers.

They've been spotted in various parts of the Indo-Pacific, like the Philippines, Indonesia and the Solomon Islands. Their range is large but the species is quite rare.

Shame. I'd love to see a whole herd of these things. The sheer quantity of stripes would put zebras to shame!
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8 comments:

  1. Esther6 March 2015 at 14:56

    Groovy, baby!

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  2. TexWisGirl6 March 2015 at 15:37

    it does make me crave peppermint. :)

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  3. Joseph JG6 March 2015 at 16:45

    Cool to find a Sea Cucumber that makes everyone think about sweet, lovely things!

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  4. Crunchy6 March 2015 at 19:08

    Don't lick the sea cucumber. Don't lick the sea cucumber. Please don't lick the sea cucumber. Please stop licking the sea cucumber. Don't look at me like that, I warned you not to lick the sea cucumber. I know. I know it doesn't taste like peppermint at all.

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  5. Porakiya7 March 2015 at 01:54

    darn it, I was beaten to the peppermint comments.....oh well *licks sea cucumber*....bleh *keels over and dies*

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  6. Joseph JG11 March 2015 at 11:43

    Hahah! The effects of sea cucumber greatly outweigh the effects of peppermint

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  7. Akavakaku16 March 2015 at 18:18

    Some sea cucumbers are edible! Maybe this one would be good with a little mint and ginger...

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  8. Joseph JG20 March 2015 at 01:20

    Hahah! There's not enough stripy food out there!

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