{"id":6786,"date":"2011-12-11T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2012-12-18T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T22:32:36","slug":"postcard-from-the-reef-hawaiian-spiky-sea-cucumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=6786","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Hawaiian Spiky Sea Cucumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These sea cucumbers are well known to divers and can be found in the local guide books. There is no scientific name, the species has never been properly described. An odd state of affairs for a relatively common critter. As for the name? I could come up with a few other common names that seem to describe the appearance. However, naming a species after a pile of doo-doo is not generally acceptable.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6787\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6787\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6787\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/CE25-76-11303-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Hawaiian Spiky Sea Cucumber \" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/CE25-76-11303-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/CE25-76-11303-DC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawaiian Spiky Sea Cucumber (Stichopus sp.) at 100ft depth off O&#8217;oma, the species is well known but undescribed in the literature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These sea cucumbers are well known to divers and can be found in the local guide books. There is no scientific name, the species has never been properly described. An odd state of affairs for a relatively common critter. As for the name? I could come up with a few other common names that seem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=6786\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Hawaiian Spiky Sea Cucumber&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[98,37,474],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}