slender footless sea cucumber

Leptosynapta tenuis

Classification

Class: Holothuroidea
Order: Apodida
Family: Synaptidae

Leptosynapta tenuis, commonly known as the white synapta or the slender footless sea cucumber, is a species of sea cucumber in the family Synaptidae. Description Leptosynapta tenuis has a skinny and long vermiform, fragile body that can reach up to about 15 cm (6 in) long and 0. 6 cm (0.

Distribution

slender footless sea cucumber — (c) Jonathan Layman, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 41Canada · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Jonathan Layman, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionLeptosynapta tenuis, Wikipedia contributors

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