Let's face it, even with their rather sanitized common name, sea cucumbers just bring out the heebie-jeebies in most people. Heck, some of them were even named 'horrendous' by taxonomists. Personally, I used to have a minor phobia of cukes, because I almost drowned as a kid and the last memory of that incident that stuck in my mind was of a sea cucumber that had wrapped itself around my leg.
Needless to say, I've long gotten over that. Especially since I came on board iNat after being encouraged by Frédéric Ducarme and Gustav Paulay. They got a number of my u/w photos of sea cucumbers identified soon after posting, that I went ahead and read up on those species. And discovered so many interesting things about holothurids.
Well, now that I know more than before about sea cucumbers, I'm excited to take more pictures of them in situ and share them on iNat. More to come!
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