I gotta get a better ID book!

[Wildcard]

What is this?

 

[alcina]

It's a sea cucumber. Exact type I don't know as I don't have any Hawaii books...

 

[Wildcard]

I don't think it's a cuke, it has feet/suckers on the bottom. I don't rember cukes as having that. But I could be wrong, it happened to me once before

 

[Kim]

I think that it's a - Holothuria flavomaculata sea cucumber. The description from my book (Tropical Pacific Invertebrates) is:
"The dark brown body with light brown papillae tips is distinctive in this species. It lives in lagoon reef areas and is known from the Red Sea to the Western Pacific."
The picture in the book is almost identical.

 

[alcina]

They can have little suckies on the bottom

 

[Wildcard]

Thanks Kim, sounds like the critter. I guess I have never seen one with suckers or just didn't pay attention. Sea Cuke or bikini swiming overhead, ya can see my problem! LOL Thanks for the input.

 

[scottfiji]

Thanks Kim, sounds like the critter. I guess I have never seen one with suckers or just didn't pay attention. Sea Cuke or bikini swiming overhead, ya can see my problem! LOL Thanks for the input.

Wildcard,
Since you seem interested in Sea Cucumbers (you fancied them enough to take their picture), I dug up some additional reading if you are interested. Starfish, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, and sand dollars are all Echinoderms. The all have radial symmetry (5-way) and a very cool water vascular system. All sea cucumbers have tube feet. The 3 web pages below are very interesting reading on these subjects..

http://www.oceanicresearch.org/echinoderm.html
http://www.masla.com/invert/echinoderm02.html
http://ebiomedia.com/prod/BOechinoderms.html

Scott

 

[Wildcard]

I shall read! Thanks. I have seen lots of them but most are a featureless round tube or the opaqe french tickler ones I used to catch by the thousands off of Cali. This one was kinda cool looking.

 

[Wildcard]

It's all good!