SeaCucumber

Sea Cucumber


 * class:**
 * Phyla**: Echinodermata


 * Location**: Can be found in any ocean throughout the world.
 * Size:** 0.5 inches up to 7 feet.


 * Description of habitat:** Ocean dwellers. Some can live in the shallows while others may live in the deep parts of the ocean. Some will also live partially buried beneath the ocean floor.


 * Living Requirements:** To reproduce asexually they must be around many sea cucumbers. Must be living in an area with many algae, minute aquatic animals, or waste materials for food.


 * Life Cycle:** Hatched from eggs and into larvae. Then they grow into adult sea cucumbers. They can breed sexually or asexually. Sexual reproduction is more common but not very intimate. Sometimes they will release both eggs and sperm into the water and for fertilization to occur the eggs and sperm must meet. For this reproduction to work there must be a large number of sea cucumbers in the area.

They can violently contract there muscles to lose some of there internal organs out there anus as a defense mechinism, which they can back after they have found some safety.
 * Facts:** When threatened they can discharge sticky threads to ensnare there enemies.



http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/sea-cucumber/