Concarneau Bay, France, 11 meters, 2004, WBN
Neopentadactyla mixta is a sea cucumber of up to 20 cm in length. The cylindrical body is buried in the sand, only its 15 to 30 tentacles emerge. The tentacles are bushy and 10 cm long. They are used to catch and bring plankton into the mouth, in the middle of the tentacles circle. Tentacles are slipt into the mouth and licked to collect plankton stuck on them as it is the case with the close sea cucumber species Aslia lefevrei. The colour is generally yellowish to orange but it may be purple.
Neopentadactyla mixta is found from surface to 200 m deep in the Atlantic from Norway to Brittany, in the North Sea and the English Channel.
Source : World Register of Marine Species
Dernière mise à jour 18-04-2024
Text : Anne Bay-Nouailhat © 2005 - 2024.
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Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat. Published with his kind permission.
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Données de distribution : Neopentadactyla mixta in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-04-18.
Text : Anne Bay-Nouailhat © 2005 - 2024.
Photos : ©
Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat. Published with his kind permission.
Websites and reference works : Consult bibliography
Bay-Nouailhat A., September 2005, Description of Neopentadactyla mixta, [On line] https://european-marine-life.org/30/neopentadactyla-mixta.php, consulted on 2024 April 18.
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