Sounds like a salad right? Of course, I'm posting photos of sea life, so the lettuce becomes the lettuce sea slug and the cucumber becomes the three-rowed sea cucumber.
This morning, I found this lettuce sea slug crawling on a dead coral structure at a depth of about 20 feet. It was a little over an inch long. From a distance, they are easy to overlook. However, up close, they are delicate little organisms.
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| The lettuce sea slug is heading down in this photo |
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| The two tentacles stick out ahead of the body |
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| It turned around, and is now heading up the coral rock |
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| The elaborate skin ruffles are used to absorb oxygen through the skin |
The three-rowed sea cucumber is quite a bit larger than the lettuce sea slug. This one was about 10 inches long. They don't move very fast and aren't much of a challenge to locate or photograph. This photo was taken at a depth of about 20 feet. It is heading towards the right.
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