REPRODUCTION

Cucumaria miniata reproduces by discharging either sperm or eggs into the water in the spring.  The eggs are about 1/2  mm, buoyant and green.  Fertilized eggs develop into a juvenile swimming form..  The juveniles settle to the bottom in about one to two weeks.

Swimming juvenile of a related species

After Chia, F.-S. & J.B. Buchanan. 1969. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 49:151-159 Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press