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and when feeding it usually has its posterior end anchored underneath a rock or in a crevice so that it can contract back out of sight if disturbed. It feeds by using its tentacles to shovel organic debris lying on the seabed into its mouth. In the process it swallows a significant quantity of sand,
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was more common near boulders, corals and seaweed clumps than it was on the open seabed. It found that this species is relatively tolerant of changes in salinity and temperature and continued to thrive in the laboratory when these parameters were changed. Under the same conditions, the
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is a medium-sized sea cucumber reaching a length of up to 40 centimetres (16 in) when relaxed but it can stretch to about a metre (yard) when extended. It is roughly cylindrical, tapering towards the posterior end. At the anterior end, there are twenty oral tentacles with branched tips. These
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of the subgenus and is found on the seabed in shallow water in the
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422:which passes through the gut.
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520:Paulay, Gustav (2012).
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346:Holothuria leucospilota
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181:Holothuria leucospilota
25:Holothuria leucospilota
16:Species of sea cucumber
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388:Apostichopus japonicus
383:Apostichopus japonicus
318:. It is placed in the
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483:: e.T180375A1622259.
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222:Holothuria gelatinosa
270:Holothuria vagabunda
163:H. leucospilota
262:Holothuria oxurropa
254:Holothuria lamperti
42:Conservation status
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297:black sea cucumber
246:Holothuria lagoena
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206:Halodeima dicorona
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496:20 November
341:Description
233:Clark, 1938
1170:Categories
1064:Stichopus
748:Holothuria
741:Bohadschia
734:Actinopyga
603:2013-03-10
597:Fact sheet
575:2013-03-10
539:2013-03-10
452:References
380:cucumber (
307:of marine
150:Holothuria
1087:Q63254335
419:scavenger
355:tube feet
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