FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes Western

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Order Aspidochirotida - Stichopodidae 1185
Order Aspidochirotida - Stichopodidae STICHOPODIDAE
Diagnostic characters: Body square-shaped or trapezoidal in cross-section. Cuvierian organs absent.
Gonads forming 2 tufts appended on each side of the dorsal mesentery. Dominant spicules in form of
branched rods and C-and S-shaped rods.
Key to the genera of Stichopodidae occurring in the area (after Clark and Rowe, 1971)
1a. Bivium covered with large papillae, leaf-shaped, simple or branched, and without podia
regularly arranged longitudinally; spicules never developod as tables, but numerous
grains, dichotomously branched rods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thelenota
1b. Bivium covered with tubercules and papillae, at least on sides; trivium more or less
covered by podia; spicules developod as tables, branched rods, and C-and S-shaped
rods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stichopus
List of species of interest to fisheries occurring in the area
The symbol is given when species accounts are included.
Stichopus chloronotus Brandt, 1835
Stichopus horrens Selenka, 1867
Stichopus variegatus Semper, 1868
Thelenota ananas (Jaeger, 1833)
Thelenota anax Clark, 1921