!>ea-cucumbers or holothurians are the most important group
among the echiaoderms since some of the sea cucumbers arc
processed and the product is known as beche-de-mer or Trepang
for export market. They are sluggish, unattractive and even repulsive
organisms found in the sea particularly in the intertidal region.
Toxins found in some of the sea-cucumbers have antitumoural and
anticancerous properties
