Actinopyga flammea |
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Actinopyga flammea red sea cucumber, Namena, Fiji. |
Actinopyga sp. |
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Actinopyga lecanora? This "hard to the touch" sea cucumber was photographed in Kadavu, Fiji.
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Actinopyga echinites? - Baked potato sea cucumber
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ECHIN 7442 Actinopyga echinites?, Baked potato sea cucumber - a species I have never seen before. Identification anyone? Taveuni, Fiji.
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ECHIN 7444 Actinopyga sp. Baked potato sea cucumber - anal teeth. Taveuni, Fiji.
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ECHIN 7451 Actinopyga sp. Baked potato sea cucumber - close-up of anal teeth. Taveuni, Fiji.
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Australostichopus mollis |
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Australostichopus (Stichopus) mollis common New Zealand sea cucumber |
Bohadschia argus |
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ECHIN 0942 Bohadschia argus Raja Ampat, West Papua
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ECHIN 4960 Bohadschia argus, skin detail, Paradise Resort home reef, Taveuni, Fiji
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ECHIN 4954 Bohadschia argus, Paradise Resort home reef, Taveuni, Fiji
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ECHIN 3252 Bohadschia argus skin detail, Kadavu, Fiji.
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Bohadschia marmorata |
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ECHIN 3730 Bohadschia marmorata with extruded Cuverian tubules, Kadavu, Fiji
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Colochirus robustus |
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ECHIN 2446 Colochirus robustus Raja Ampat, West Papua.
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ECHIN 8648 Colochirus robustus Kri Eco, Raja Ampat.
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ECHIN 3651 Colochirus robustus cluster Raja Ampat, West Papua |
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ECHIN 3089 Colochirus robustus on Polycarpa aurata ascidian Raja Ampat, West Papua
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ECHIN 3655 Colochirus robustus on Polycarpa aurata ascidian, Raja Ampat West Papua |
Holothuria edulis Pink sea cucumber |
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Holothuria edulis Pink sea cucumber, Kadavu, Fiji. |
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ECHIN 4947 Holothuria edulis, pink sea cucumber, house reef, Paradise Resort, Taveuni, Fiji. |
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ECHIN 4943 Holothuria edulis, pink sea cucumber, house reef, Paradise Resort, Taveuni, Fiji. |
Holothuria scabra Sandfish sea cucumber |
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ECHINO 8313 Holothuria scabra Sandfish sea cucumber, Gotham City, Great Barrier Reef
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Holothuria turriscelsa Volcano sea cucumber |
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ECHIN 7800 Holothuria turriscelsa Volcano sea cucumber Puerto Galera, Philippines.
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Ocnus brevidentis |

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Ocnus brevidentis, red morph "Strawberry Holothurian"
Fiordland, New Zealand
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Pearsonothuria graeffei Graeffe's sea cucumber |
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Pearsonothuria (Bohadaschia) graeffei, Graeffe's sea cucumber with extended feeding tentacles, Kadavu, Fiji. |
Pseudocolochirus
violaceus |
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Pseudocolochirus violaceus Sea apple, captive.
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Stichopus chloronotus |
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Stichopus chloronotus, Common tropical green sea cucumber. Kadavu, Fiji.
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Synaptula lamperti |
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ECHIN 0500 Synaptula lamperti on sponge, Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua
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ECHIN 1198 Synaptula lamperti on basket sponge, Raja Ampat, West Papua
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ECHIN 1199 Masses of Synaptula lamperti on basket sponge Raja Ampat, West Papua
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Synapta maculata |
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ECHIN 6193 Synapta maculata with Imperial shrimp hitchhiker (which I didn't see at the time :-( )
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Thelenota ananas, Kadavu, Fiji.
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Thelenota ananas, spine detail Kadavu, Fiji
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Thelenota anax |
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Thelenota anax, the largest of the holothurians, Kadavu, Fiji |
Thelenota rubralineata |

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Thelenota rubralineata redlined
sea cucumber
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Unidentified holothurian 2 |
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Unidentified holothurian, Glover's Reef, Belize.
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Unidentified holothurian 3 |
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Sea cucumber, Glover's Reef, Belize. |
Unidentified holothurian 4 |
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Sea cucumber, photographed at Glover's Reef, Belize
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Unidentifed holothurian 5 |
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Synapta sp? Holothurian, Sugar wreck, Bahamas.
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