Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Sea cucumber
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== Locomotion === Some abyssal species in the abyssal order [[Elasipodida]] have evolved to a "benthopelagic" behaviour: their body is nearly the same density as the water around them, so they can make long jumps (up to {{convert|1000|m|disp=or}} high), before falling slowly back to the ocean floor. Most of them have specific swimming appendages, such as some kind of umbrella (like ''[[Enypniastes]]''), or a long lobe on top of the body (''[[Psychropotes]]''). Only one species is known as a true completely [[pelagic]] species, that never comes close to the bottom: ''[[Pelagothuria natatrix]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/deep-sea-swimming-sea-cucumbers-and.html|title=Deep-Sea Swimming Sea Cucumbers and the "most bizarre holothurian species in existence" ! |last1=Mah |first1=Christopher L.|date=2012-09-18 |website=The Echinoblog }}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)