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peppered sea cucumber

Cucumaria piperata

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Easily confused with

Stiff-footed sea cucumberEupentacta quinquesemita

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in British Columbia.

Canada	263
British Columbia	263
United States	212
Washington	111
California	97
Oregon	4

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

RegenerationCan regrow lost body partsFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Echinoderms · Echinodermata
Class	Sea Cucumbers · Holothuroidea
Order	Filtering sea cucumbers · Dendrochirotida
Family	Cucumariidae
Genus	Cucumaria

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
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