Holy Holothuria!

Let's face it, even with their rather sanitized common name, sea cucumbers just bring out the heebie-jeebies in most people. Heck, some of them were even named 'horrendous' by taxonomists. Personally, I used to have a minor phobia of cukes, because I almost drowned as a kid and the last memory of that incident that stuck in my mind was of a sea cucumber that had wrapped itself around my leg.

Needless to say, I've long gotten over that. Especially since I came on board iNat after being encouraged by Frédéric Ducarme and Gustav Paulay. They got a number of my u/w photos of sea cucumbers identified soon after posting, that I went ahead and read up on those species. And discovered so many interesting things about holothurids.

Well, now that I know more than before about sea cucumbers, I'm excited to take more pictures of them in situ and share them on iNat. More to come!

Posted on July 22, 2015 12:10 PM by blogie