A fact from Cuvierian tubules appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 March 2013 ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the black sea cucumber (pictured) can emit a mass of sticky cuvierian tubules to enmesh a potential predator? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Holothuria leucospilota, Cuvierian tubules.

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Do Cuvierian tubules have any function other than to be ejected by holothurians under attack? If so, this article omits mention of that. If not (or, more properly, there is no known other function), the article should say so. -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 16:50, 13 March 2013 (UTC) reply

I believe they have no other known function but I can't put that in the article unless I have a source for the statement. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 18:16, 13 March 2013 (UTC) reply

looks like they have no other function, according to http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/sea-cucumber-defense-pt2-evisceration.html 1-is-blue ( talk) 23:43, 10 March 2016 (UTC) reply

I wanted to link to the German version http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuviersche_Schläuche, but I got an error. RobertPollak ( talk) 22:55, 15 November 2013 (UTC) reply