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survey of the shallow-water sea cucumbers of the central philippines

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White-bottomed Sea Cucumber<br />

Actinopyga lecanora<br />

This <strong>sea</strong> cucumber with a thick, muscular body wall, grows to 25 cm in length, mottled in<br />

chestnut with numerous whitish blotches to uniformly chestnut or olive. It possesses a<br />

characteristic white posterior. The only nocturnal species <strong>of</strong> Actinopyga, it is usually found on<br />

<strong>the</strong> forereef slope to at least 20 m.<br />

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