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Common sense of sea cucumber
  • time:2019-03-22 05:46
Sea cucumber, belonging to Holothuroidea, is a marine echinoderm living at the seashore to 8000 meters. It has a history of more than 600 million years. Sea cucumber feeds on seafloor algae and plankton. Sea cucumbers are covered with spines and are widely distributed in the world's oceans. There are many kinds of sea cucumbers along the coast of the South China Sea. There are about 20 kinds of sea cucumbers available for food.
Sea cucumber, as well as ginseng, bird's nest and shark's fin, is one of the world's eight treasures. Sea cucumber is not only a precious food, but also a precious medicine. According to the Records in the Compendium of Materia Medica: sea cucumber, sweet and salty taste, tonifying kidney, benefiting essence, taking urine, strengthening impotence, its sexual warming and tonifying, enough enemy ginseng, so named sea cucumber. Sea cucumber has the functions of improving memory, delaying senescence of gonads, preventing arteriosclerosis and anti-cancer. With the popularization of sea cucumber value knowledge, sea cucumber has gradually entered the common people's table. The living environment determines the quality of sea cucumber.
The body is cylindrical, 10-20 cm long, and can be as large as 30 cm. It is dark and spiny. Tensor wheel shape, 17-30, generally 20. Touch, handbag developed. Sea cucumber is the earliest living organism, known as marine living fossil, which multiplied earlier than primitive fish on the earth and began to exist in the Precambrian period about 600 million years ago. After several great destruction of the earth, we can survive and witness the changes of the earth several times. The mouth is at the front, mostly on the ventral side. Anus is at the back, mostly on the back. There are usually verrucous feet on the back and tubular feet on the ventral side. The endoskeleton degenerates into tiny pieces. Many species have five lines of foot from mouth to anus. The anal foramen is also responsible for breathing and discharging waste. There are 10 or more telescopic tentacles around the mouth for predation or burrowing. Many species can release internal organs from the anus and regenerate new ones, possibly to escape the enemy. In the cloaca, there are often symbiotic cryptofish of the genus Carapus. There are many toxins that can be lethal to small animals, but they are not life-threatening to humans.