Francois Michonneau, USA
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Stichopus monotuberculatus is often not noticed by divers, because during the day the sea cucumber hides in crevices and under rubble, and only at night it emerges on reef slabs, in lagoons and on reef slopes to search for feeding microorganisms.
Sea cucumbers are the vacuum cleaners of the seas, they clean the seabed of detritus and debis.
The sea cucumber, Stichopus monotuberculatus, is an economically important holothuroid in China due to its larger body size and is considered a delicacy there,
On the body size, considerable differences in the size of the sea cucumber can be found in the literature, these dimensions range from 10 - 60cm.....
On at the maximum depth distribution there are differences between 30 - 45 meters.
The sea cucumber Stichopus monotuberculatus has an orange-brown to gray-green color with dark green to black spots.
The ventral side has a gray-green color with small dark spots.
Twenty large tentacles surround the mouth.
The tubular feet are yellowish brown in the ambulacral areas, and large conical papillae are distributed more or less randomly on the dorsal surface, 8-10 larger papillae are located laterally.
Etymology
The species name is derived from "tuberculum, meaning small hump, with reference to the conical wart-like projections of the dorsal body wall, "mono" stands for etymology
Specific name derived from tuberculum meaning small hump, with reference to the conical, wart-like projections of the dorsal body wall, "mono" meaning "alone", "single".
Synonyms:
Holothuria monotuberculata Quoy & Gaimard, 1834.
Stichopus unituberculatus
Sea cucumbers are the vacuum cleaners of the seas, they clean the seabed of detritus and debis.
The sea cucumber, Stichopus monotuberculatus, is an economically important holothuroid in China due to its larger body size and is considered a delicacy there,
On the body size, considerable differences in the size of the sea cucumber can be found in the literature, these dimensions range from 10 - 60cm.....
On at the maximum depth distribution there are differences between 30 - 45 meters.
The sea cucumber Stichopus monotuberculatus has an orange-brown to gray-green color with dark green to black spots.
The ventral side has a gray-green color with small dark spots.
Twenty large tentacles surround the mouth.
The tubular feet are yellowish brown in the ambulacral areas, and large conical papillae are distributed more or less randomly on the dorsal surface, 8-10 larger papillae are located laterally.
Etymology
The species name is derived from "tuberculum, meaning small hump, with reference to the conical wart-like projections of the dorsal body wall, "mono" stands for etymology
Specific name derived from tuberculum meaning small hump, with reference to the conical, wart-like projections of the dorsal body wall, "mono" meaning "alone", "single".
Synonyms:
Holothuria monotuberculata Quoy & Gaimard, 1834.
Stichopus unituberculatus
