holothurian


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holothurian

any ECHINODERM of the class Holothuroidea, including the sea cucumbers.
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Hemolytic activities of triterpene glycosides from the holothurian order Dendrochirotida: some trends in the evolution of this group of toxins.
Effects of holothuroid ichtyotoxic saponins on the gills of free-living fishes and symbiotic pearlfishes
Lipid and fatty acid composition of holothurians from tropical and temperate waters.
A STUDY ON PROXIMATE COMPOSITION AMINO ACID PROFILE FATTY ACID PROFILE AND SOME MINERAL CONTENTS IN TWO SPECIES OF SEA CUCUMBER
Autoevisceration and the regeneration of viscera in the holothurian Stichopus mollis.
A review of the research on the Australasian sea cucumber, Australostichopus mollis (echinodermata: holothuroidea) (Hutton 1872), with emphasis on aquaculture
Recruitment in the Holothurian Cucumaria frondosa in the Gulf of Maine.
A study of tagging methods for the sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa in the waters off Maine
Evisceration behavior and the seasonal incidence of evisceration in the holothurian Eupentactu quinquesemita (Selenka).
Autotomy of the visceral mass in the feather star himeroinetra robustipinna (crinoidea, comatulida)
On two bathypelagic holothurians from the South China Sea.
Primer registro del pepino de mar nadador Enypniastes eximia Theel, 1882 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) en aguas peruanas
Harwood California State University, Bakersfield, Department of Biology, Bakersfield, CA 93311 55 1:40 VARIATION IN THE DEEP SEA HOLOTHURIAN PSYCHROPOTES LONGICAUDA AND CONFIRMATION OF THE SPECIES PSYCHROPOTES MIRABILIS K.
Southern California Academy of Sciences: May 2-3, 2008: California State University Dominguez Hills
The surface of the substrate is gobbled by holothurians on a huge scale (it is estimated that every portion of sediment is consumed by a holothurian between 1-5 times a year).
3 Life on the ocean bottom
Coleodes-mium karaensis is the shallowest-living torquaratorid discovered so far and is possibly an example of the high-latitude emergence that was previously noted for some other benthic animals of the Novaya Zemlya Trough by Filatova and Zenkevich (1957)--for example, the holothurian El-pidia glacialis Theel, 1876.
An externally brooding acorn worm hemichordata, enteropneusta, torquaratoridae from the Russian Arctic
Distribution and density of two holothurian species in Cubagua Island, Venezuela.
Distribucion y densidad de dos especies de holoturoideos en la isla de Cubagua, Venezuela
Holothurian fisheries are based on a few deposit-feeding species belonging to two families and five genera: Actinopyga and Holothuria (Holothuridae) and Parastichopus, Stichopus, and Thelenota (Stichopodidae).
A review of recent developments in the world sea cucumber fisheries
He concluded that the flatfish was far more likely to have been a holothurian, in particular the bathypelagic "cushion shaped" Galatheathuria aspera, which is white, oval, and about a foot long.
On the validity of the Trieste Flatfish: dispelling the myth
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