survey of the shallow-water sea cucumbers of the central philippines
survey of the shallow-water sea cucumbers of the central philippines
survey of the shallow-water sea cucumbers of the central philippines
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Brown-spotted Sea Cucumber<br />
Holothuria fuscopunctata<br />
This large species grows to about 70 cm in length, is loaf shaped, speckled in small brown spots<br />
on a whitish to yellowish dorsum having numerous transverse wrinkles lined in black. White<br />
ventrally. Always exposed, usually on sand with rubble at <strong>the</strong> base <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> forereef slope, below<br />
10 m in depth. Often found in <strong>the</strong> same habitat as Thelenota anax.<br />
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