Species Profile
Holothuria
Sea cucumber
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumEchinodermata
ClassHolothuroidea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Holothuria lives on sandy sea floor.
Feeds on detritus.
Important benthic organism.
Size & Structure
01
Soft elongated body
02
Tentacles around mouth
03
Brown or dark colour
Holothuria — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Reduced
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral secondary radial
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Nerve ring
- Excretory organ
- Absent
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Respiratory trees
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Water vascular system
- Skeleton structure
- Reduced endoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ-system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Detritivore
Recycles organic matter
Marine ecosystem function
Economic Importance
Used as food (bêche-de-mer)
Commercial importance