Cucumaria frondosa Sea Cucumber, Orange Footed Sea Cucumber

Cucumaria frondosa is commonly referred to as Sea Cucumber, Orange Footed Sea Cucumber. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

6391 

AphiaID:

124612 

Scientific:

Cucumaria frondosa 

German:

Schwarze Seegurke 

English:

Sea Cucumber, Orange Footed Sea Cucumber 

Category:

Sea Cucumbers 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Holothuroidea (Class) > Dendrochirotida (Order) > Cucumariidae (Family) > Cucumaria (Genus) > frondosa (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Gunnerus, ), 1767 

Occurrence:

the North Sea, Arctic (North Polar Sea), Barents Sea, Canada Eastern Pacific, East-Atlantic Ocean, European Coasts, Greenland, Gulf of Maine, Iceland, Newfoundland, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific (Ocean), Scandinavia, Skagerrak (North Sea), South Shetlands Island , Spitsbergen /Svalbard, the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, USA, West-Atlantic Ocean 

Sea depth:

20 - 500 Meter 

Size:

up to 19.69" (50 cm) 

Temperature:

35.6 °F - 73.4 °F (2°C - 23°C) 

Food:

Suspension feeder 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Cucumaria adela
• Cucumaria anivaensis
• Cucumaria arcuata
• Cucumaria compressa
• Cucumaria conicospermium
• Cucumaria crax
• Cucumaria diligens
• Cucumaria dudexa
• Cucumaria duriuscula
• Cucumaria dyakonovi
• Cucumaria fallax
• Cucumaria flamma
• 
  Cucumaria frondosa
  Schwarze Seegurke
• Cucumaria fusiformis
• Cucumaria georgiana
• Cucumaria ijimai
• Cucumaria insperata
• Cucumaria irregularis
• Cucumaria koreaensis
• Cucumaria lamberti
• Cucumaria levini
• 
  Cucumaria miniata
  Orange Zwergseegurke
• Cucumaria munita
• Cucumaria obscura
• Cucumaria okhotensis
• 
  Cucumaria pallida
  Blasse Seegurke
• Cucumaria paraglacialis
• Cucumaria parassimilis
• Cucumaria perfida
• Cucumaria periprocta
• 
  Cucumaria piperata
  Salz-und Pfeffer-Seewalze
• Cucumaria planciana
• Cucumaria pseudocurata
• Cucumaria pusilla
• Cucumaria sachalinica
• Cucumaria salma
• Cucumaria savelijevae
• Cucumaria solangeae
• Cucumaria tenuis
• Cucumaria vaneyi
• Cucumaria vegae
• Cucumaria vicaria
• Cucumaria vilis
• Alle anzeigen

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2013-11-09 19:29:50 

Last edit:

2020-04-05 20:08:02 

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