The Natural History of Bodega Head

    A beautiful view of the tentacles of an Orange Sea Cucumber ( Cucumaria miniata ).  You can also see a few of the cucumber's tubefee...

    An interesting find today (27 June 2024) -- Pachythyone rubra , a more southern sea cucumber that's more common south of Monterey.  ...

    We saw at least 10 species of loli, or sea cucumbers, while snorkeling in Hawai'i.  Eric made this great mosaic before we saw the 10...

    I think we've seen 10 species of sea cucumber in the Sonoma/Marin county area, and over the years I've posted photos of 8 of tho...

    Small white sea cucumbers can be hard to identify.  This one might be a Stiff-footed Sea Cucumber ( Eupentacta quinquesemita ).  Photogr...

During one of our recent intertidal zone surveys, Eric noticed this tiny little orange blob on a rock:   Although the blob was only ~...

It's been a while since I've shown a marine invertebrate, so here are a few quick photos of a Scarlet Sea Cucumber ( Lissothuria nut...

A couple of months ago, Eric noticed this interesting sea cucumber in the rocky intertidal zone.  Its coloration caught his eye.  We've ...

Okay, remember the mystery photo from last night?  Here's a reminder, with a slightly different view:   I'll zoom out a bit...

  About two years ago, I shared a post about the Scarlet Sea Cucumber, Lissothuria nutriens (see post on 22 January 2015 ).  At that t...

Last night I shared a video of a small sea cucumber ( the video is also at the end of this post) and I promised more information about it...

I haven't posted a video in a little while, so here's a nice one that Eric put together recently.   Th e little sea c uc umbe r ...

We were doing field work on the Mendocino coast today (10 June 2016).  In between surveys, we documented a few nice invertebrates:   ...

  A mystery close-up for you.  Above is a highly magnified view.  The next two images show the upper portions of the branched tentacles...