Title
Sea Cucumber (with labels)
Subject
Echinodermata -- Physiology
Holothurians
Dissection
Description
Five photographs of various stages of the dissection of a sea cucumber, each with specific features labeled. For those showing the internal structures of the sea cucumber, T-pins are used to hold the sea cucumber open.
Image 1: Ventral External Features
Image 2: Anterior (close up)
Image 3: Internal Features
Image 1: Ventral External Features
- crown of tentacles
- podia of ventral ambulacra (tube feet)
Image 2: Anterior (close up)
- crown of tentacles
- tube feet ventral podia (tube feet)
Image 3: Internal Features
- tentacles
- wall of pharynx
- esophagus
- respiratory tree
- stomach
- intestine
- retractor muscles
- gonad
- longitude muscle band
- radiating cloacal muscles
- cloaca (cut)
- wall of pharynx
- retractor muscles
- intestine
- tentacles
- esophagus
- longitudinal muscle bands
- tentacle
- wall of pharynx
- retractor muscle
- radiating cloaca muscles
- esophagus
- stomach
- intestine
- cloaca
- anus
Publisher
Biological Sciences
State University of New York at Buffalo
Date
11/7/2005
Rights
Type
Image
Photograph
Image
Still Image
Identifier
BIO-001
Citation
“Sea Cucumber (with labels),” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed July 18, 2025, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/4227.