來瞧瞧，罕見又可愛的『海豬』吧～（上次請大家品味海雞雞，這次來看看海豬吧）

作者：Jessica的老公│2010-06-25 16:30:25│巴幣：14│人氣：13233

胖嘟嘟的身形，滑溜溜的身體，再加上怪噁心的觸手

來看看平日少見的海豬吧～～

(在台灣，海豬的介紹甚少，所以我就參考並翻譯一篇國外網站的內容來介紹嘍)

Sea pig （Scotoplanes genus）

（海豬是海參的近親）

To the common man sea pigs may look like sea creatures produced from a cross between a pig and a slug. To some others it appears to be human fingers growing out of the creature’s mouth. But scientifically, these ugly sea pigs are scotoplanes or sea cucumbers belonging to the genus of the deep sea Holothurians.

對於一般人而言『海豬』可能看起來像一個生活在海中，外觀好似豬與蛞蝓的混合體。某些人覺得牠的嘴好像伸出了許多人類的手指。然而科學家說明，這些外貌醜陋的海豬其實是屬於scotoplanes或海參屬的深海海參。

These Holothurians are marine animals that inhabit the deep sea floor. Some other examples of deep sea marine life include Sea squirt, sea stars, sea slugs, corals, clams, sponges and sea urchins. The Sea pigs may look like slugs. Their body wall skeleton is clearly visible as spiny C shaped rods and are clear cucumbers measuring2-4 inches in length. They have tentacles and large tube feet. The tube feet may appear like two antennas, while the other tube feet are arranged in a row around the rim at the bottom.

這些海參是棲息在深海底的海洋動物。其他深海海洋生物的例子包括，海鞘，海星，海蛞蝓，珊瑚，蛤，海綿和海膽。海豬可能看起來像蛞蝓，他們的體壁骨架呈現清晰明顯的C形狀，身長約2 - 4英寸。他們有觸角和大型管足。此管足可能會出現像兩對天線，而其它管足都連續排列在底部的周圍邊緣。

（海豬漫步在海床，體表還泛有微微螢光）

Sea pigs thrive best on the abyssal plain of the ocean floor and behave like slugs do above sea level. The sea cucumbers feed on deep ocean mud and thrive on the organic material present there. The sea pigs feed by using their tentacles to push the food into their mouth. They tread deep sea waters using their tube feet. Other sea organisms present here are starfish, sea urchins, clams and other members of the echinodermata family.

海豬通常存在於深海洋底的平原上，牠們的行為很類似海蛞蝓。海豬吃深海泥以及依賴有機物質茁壯成長。海豬使用他們的觸角將食物推送到他們嘴裡。他們藉著管足在深海水域中活動，就如同海星，海膽，蛤蜊與棘皮動物家族這類海洋生物。

（海豬素描圖）

The sea pigs feed and reproduce in the depths of the ocean and form the majority of deep sea marine population. The sea pigs are not considered as a threat to humans and they are not an endangered species.

海豬在海洋深處養成與繁殖並且構成深海主要族群。海豬對人類無害也非瀕危物種。

（海豬大部分分佈在深海海床上））

Mills and colleagues from the New Zealand’s National Institute of water and atmospheric pressure collected 30,000 deep sea animals including the sea pigs during a marine census of southern Antarctica. The sea pigs are available in abundance all over the world except the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean and eastern part of Pacific Ocean, and in central and South America.

任職於紐西蘭國家水與大氣研究所的米爾斯和他的同事，在南極洲南部海洋普查中，收集近30000種深海動物，包括海豬。海豬大量分佈在世界各地深海中，除了北大西洋和東太平洋的一部分，以及中美洲和南美洲。