Much of the information used in this section is taken from an excellent paper by Jean-Francois Hamel and Annie Mercier in Marine & Freshwater Behaviour & Physiology 33: 115-139 and this: physiology and regeneration oriented papers by Didier Vandenspiegel, Michel Jangoux and Patrick Flammang in Biological Bulletin (2000). and this: Patrick Flammang, Jerome Ribesse and Michel Jangoux in Integrative and Comparative Biology 42: 1107-1115.
Hamel and Mercier studied the efficiency of Cuvierian tubules in 3 species of tropical sea cucumbers (note that idents were taken on face value from labels-but used for educational purposes)