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  1. Animals
  2. ›Echinoderms
  3. ›sea urchins and sea cucumbers
  4. ›Sea Cucumbers
  5. ›Actinopoda
  6. ›Synallactida
  7. ›Stichopodidae
  8. ›Thelenota
Pineapple Sea Cucumber
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IUCN EN · Endangered

Pineapple Sea Cucumber

Thelenota ananas

Thelenota ananas, also known as pineapple sea cucumber, oloturia ananas, tripang, prickly skin cucumber, pointed teat sea cucumber, armoured sea cucumber, giant sea cucumber, sand fish or prickly redfish, is a species of sea cucumber found in tropical Indo-Pacific waters from the Red Sea and East Africa to Hawaii and Polynesia. Its reddish-brown body with large and mostly branched papillae can reach up to 70 centimetres (28 in) in length. This species can be found on clean...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 83882.