Description
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Colour in life: grey-green with deep, mostly transverse, folding above, below pinkish overall most obviously between three longitudinal bands of tube feet (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed around the Pacific and the Indian Ocean (Lampert, 1909); N.E. Africa (Heding, 1940); SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971). Widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific, excluding the Persian Gulf and Hawaii (Conand, 1998); throughout the Indo-west Pacific region except W India, Pakistan and Hawaii (Thandar, 1987). Habitat: sand, mud, rock or coral (Thandar, 1987).
Cherbonnier, G. (1979). Holothuries nouvelles ou peu connues de mer Rouge (Echinodermes). Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat., Paris, 4ieme serie, 1, Section A, no 4: 861-870.
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- Cherbonnier, G. (1979). Holothuries nouvelles ou peu connues de mer Rouge (Echinodermes). Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat., Paris, 4ieme serie, 1, Section A, no 4: 861-870. Cherbonnier, G. (1979). Holothuries nouvelles ou peu connues de mer Rouge (Echinodermes). Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat., Paris, 4ieme serie, 1, Section A, no 4: 861-870.
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- Edward Vanden Berghe [email]
Distribution
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General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral and reef flat waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995); widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific (Conand, 1998). Also distributed in Maldive area, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
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- Cherbonnier, G. (1988). Echinodermes: Holothurides. Faune de Madagascar 70: 1-292. Cherbonnier, G. (1988). Echinodermes: Holothurides. Faune de Madagascar 70: 1-292.
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- Edward Vanden Berghe [email]
