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Ball sea cucumber
Phyllophorus spiculata
Family Phyllophoridae

These sea cucumbers are often found washed up on the shore of Chek Jawa. They are also common in the seagrass lagoon and buried everywhere on the sand bar. (Diameter to about 10cm)

They use their tube feet to anchor themselves in the ground.

 

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