Australian Post Card

21 October 1998

From Mrs. Glover

This is also an interesting animal called a holothurian, or sea cucumber. The reef bottom is covered with these animals. They eat large amounts of sand as they slowly crawl over the bottom.

This is another beautiful seastar called a pincushion seastar. Can you guess why it is has this name? Here you can see the stomach in the center and a groove down the center of each arm with little tube feet on each side of it. These feet allow the animal to move.

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