Hi Jon,
While reading a blog called AltJapan I came across this picture. The blogger describes it as a larval Mothra, which sounds reasonable to me, but can CFZers identify this creature?http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/index.html
Thursday, November 04, 2010
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It's a sea slug, isn't it?
It looks like a sea cucumber to me.
http://www.tankedup-imaging.com/photo_oz01.html
Are those barnacles?
Are those barnacles?
whatever it is, i'm sure the Japanese will eat it. pickled.
"mmmm, pickled mothra larva..."
Yeah, it's a sea cucumber. Like the slight impression of a face at the left hand side. Very common (ie I see them every day) in the Indo-Pacific and Red Sea.
Sea cucumber it is. Thick as thieves up here in the Puget Sound, but not that big on average. And, yes, people do eat them. They got a band of muscle that runs through them that you can cut out and fry up.
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