Sea Cucumber Evisceration
Sea cucumbers can eviscerate themselves, shooting their internal organs through either their head or their butt.
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Echinoblog posts on evisceration, regeneration, and Cuvierian tubules-a must read:
http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2012/0...
http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2012/0...
Evisceration and Regeneration:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
Cuvierian Tubules:
http://www.biolbull.org/content/198/1...
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Anna Rothschild
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Elizabeth Gillis
Videos of Sea Cucumber Evisceration
Courtesy Jose Garcia-Arraras
Special Thanks to Jose Garcia-Arraras
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Tubes de Cuvier émis par Holothuria pervicax
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