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Striped Sea Cucumber
Thyonella gemmata
The green sea cucumber or striped sea cucumber (Thyonella gemmata) is a marine Holothurian of the family Cucumariidae within the genus Thyonella. They are most common along the East coast of the U.S. but presence ranges from North Atlantic to Yucatán Peninsula, with occurrences on the West coast of the U.S. Usually they are green to black in color, vermiform, and 8–15 cm in length. They inhabit U-shaped burrows 0–6 m in depth and both deposit and...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 293070.