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Cucumaria miniata
Aka the Red sea cucumber. Cucumaria miniata has orange bushy tentacles it uses to capture detritus and plankton. They strategically wedge their body in a crevice where they can spread their tentacles.
Spotted in a tide pool at Tongue Point.
Cucumaria miniata can be found from northern Alaska to northern Mexico.
Spotted on May 18, 2019
Submitted on May 20, 2019
2 Comments
Thanks for your kind words Neil. Sea cucumbers are really strange. They can attach to a substrate and they can move around as well.
That is the weirdest creature! So it's more like an anemone than a slug, seeing it's fixed to the substrate? Awesome spotting, Brian. You find such amazing things!