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Self-suturing by a synaptid sea cucumber (Holothuroidea: Echinodermata)

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The synaptid sea cucumberOpheodesoma spectabilis responds uniquely to wounding by closing the wound channel via its own ‘sticky’ anchor ossicles.

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, (British Columbia), (Canada)

    P. V. Fankboner

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I thank Dr Ernst S. Reese and the Hawaiian Institute of Marine Biology for providing facilities.

Financial support from the National Research Council of Canada (Grant A6966) is gratefully acknowledged.

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Fankboner, P.V. Self-suturing by a synaptid sea cucumber (Holothuroidea: Echinodermata). Experientia 34, 729–730 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01947286

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