Sentences with phrase «sea cucumber apostichopus»

For me, living all those years in China; it was always sea cucumber.

Scientists at Newcastle University, in North East England, working with colleagues in Africa, say the sea cucumber is important because it is responsible for cleaning up the sea bed by consuming and mixing marine sediments.

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Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation.

In this case, it's a Savigny's brittle star (Ophiactis savignyi) taking a ride on a leopard sea cucumber (Bohadschia argus).

But across much of Asia, the creatures are a staple in stir - fry, soups and stews and are so sought after that they are in imminent danger of being over-harvested, according to a report on the sea cucumber trade released Wednesday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Nobody said being a sea cucumber was easy.

While the brittle star's perks are notable, this is really a story about the mighty sea cucumber, who plays host to a whole tiny ecosystem of creatures, notes bioGraphic, «including clams that take up residence in cucumber throats, fish and crabs that colonize their anuses, and worms and snails that drink their bodily fluids.»

And not to mention that hopping on a sea cucumber helps the brittle stars to get from one coral reef to another more expeditiously than on their own.

This had the spongy consistency of a sea cucumber, and the briny taste of the ocean deep.

And our expert guide Ranti from Thalassa Dive Resort found us this polyclad flatworm on the back of a sea cucumber.

There is a large variety such marine vegetation, particularly sea weed, and numerous organisms include abalone, anemones, brown seaweed, chitons, crabs, green algae, hydroids, isopods, limpets, mussels, nudibranchs, sculpin, sea cucumber, sea lettuce, sea palms, sea stars, sea urchins, shrimp, snails, sponges, surf grass, tube worms, and whelks.

Above the wall on the return to the boat, Hugh found a sea cucumber making its gradual way through a sand chute.

A coral wall slopes down gradually from about 25 to 80 feet / 8 -24 mt. Sightings here could include lobsters, barracudas, lizardfish, Nassau grouper, angel fish, furry sea cucumber and lots of other juvenile reef fish.

She felt a Giant Pacific Manta ray's smooth exterior as it accidentally brushed up against her during the night manta snorkel, as well as the slimy surface of a sea cucumber and the spiny texture of a sea urchin.

The predator may be distracted while eating the internal organs and the sea cucumber can crawl away to hide and re-grow a new set of «innards».

For those who love fresh fish, the village is a great spot to eat some bargain priced seafood as well as try some unusual dishes such as sea cucumber soup.

The source of the Chrondroitin in that product is sea cucumber.

Sea cucumber is very high in chondroitin sulfate and is used for joint and arthritic pain.

Combines glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin and sea cucumber to relieve arthritis symptoms and joint pain.

So there's this sea cucumber who poops out his intestines, I don't know, three times in the movie?

Quantitative fisheries ecology, fisheries ecosystem dynamics, population dynamics modeling, fisheries stock assessment and management, trophic dynamics, Bayesian statistics, American and spiny lobsters, groundfish, sea urchin, and sea cucumber.

Regulation of growth, intestinal microbiota, non-specific immune response and disease resistance of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Selenka) in biofloc systems — Jinghua Chen — Fish & Shellfish Immunology

Although sea cucumber overexploitation doesn't get the same attention as shark finning, these invertebrates are the second most valuable seafood export in the Pacific after tuna, according to lead author Hampus Eriksson of the international nonprofit research organization WorldFish.

The practice has put some sea cucumber species at high risk of extinction, even in a relatively well - managed area, the Great Barrier Marine Park in Australia.

Around 70 sea cucumber species are traded internationally to be used in traditional luxury cuisines, and many are endangered.

The sea cucumber has recently garnered attention for its unique skin structure.

The internal organs of a sea cucumber explode out of its body, and the sea cucumber survives.

When threatened, the sea cucumber stiffens its skin by flooding the network with proteins that bind the fibers together, forming a solid structure.

Case Western University chemist Christoph Weder has developed a biopolymer that, like the sea cucumber's skin, can change from stiff to supple in an instant.

A new material, which makes like a sea cucumber, shifting from rigid to soft, could have medically valuable applications

A foot - long sea cucumber known as the deep - sea Spanish dancer.

It seems the giant California sea cucumber can even break down and reabsorb most of its organs during winter, when food is scarce, and become dormant.

Having failed to escape its foe, the sea cucumber goes for the explosive option.

The sea cucumber has escaped being eaten, but now it has a new problem.

The researchers also found fish that swim upside down, marine worms that live in the icy melt, crustaceans called amphipods and a strange creature resembling a sea cucumber, which they nicknamed «the eggroll.»

Moments such as a blind student's tactile impressions of a sea cucumber serve as springboards for ruminations on a natural world far bigger and more complicated than any one person's perception of it.

The Aberdeen scientists drove unmanned underwater vehicles down to depths of nearly 12,000 feet to find this haul of life, including this sea cucumber.

AN OCTOPUS with ear - like fins, a deep - sea worm that feasts on crude oil and a transparent sea cucumber (pictured).

Yup, the black slimly looking thing on right hand side was the sea cucumber.

That exploded eggplant reminds me of nothing so much as some kind of as - yet unidentified echinoderm (sea stars, urchins, sea cucumber, etc.), many of whom can evert their stomachs.

are an okra dish from Woodfire Grill in Atlanta, a sea cucumber dish in China, and a seafood chowder at Bar Crudo in SF!

Instead, the darkness of night gives birth to the coral polyp and sea cucumber, to «the barnacle and his child the pearl oyster.»

With Sea Cucumbers and sea anemones, the Lord was probably having a ball.

Alaska Glacier Seafoods» products include five species of wild Alaskan salmon, salmon roe and caviar, halibut, king, Dungeness and tanner crab, rockfish, Pacific cod, sea cucumbers and sablefish.

The touch pond allowed us to hold sea stars, touch sea urchins, sea cucumbers, and a few other creatures.

Worms writhe in the goo, clams bask in the bacteria, herds of sea cucumbers dine on diatoms and sea stars scurry across the pitch black landscape.

Sea cucumbers, or holothurians, normally seen crawling incredibly slowly over the flat abyssal plains of the ocean floor, were found on steep slopes, small ledges and rock faces of the underwater mountain range.

In fact, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife put submersible vehicles off Oregon's coast during a hypoxic event that went anoxic (oxygenless) in 2006, he says, monitoring conditions and recording numerous carcasses of sea stars, sea cucumbers, marine worms and fish.

Sea cucumbers, or holothurians, are the dominant large animals.