Marine Invertebrates of Hawai'i

Class Holothuroidea -- sea cucumbers

Actinopyga mauritiana - speckled sea cucumber

Description: large brown and white speckled cucumber; body lined with tube feet; ring of five small teeth around anus.

Size: up to 15 cm length.

Habitat: on shallow sandy reef flats.

Holothuria atra - black sea cucumber

Description: black, smooth, hard cucumber often covered with sand.

Size: up to 30 cm length.

Habitat: on shallow sandy reef flats.

Ophiodesoma spectabilis - sea worm sea cucumber

Description: body long and tubular, thin and transparent; body banded pink to dark red.

Size: up to 1 m length.

Habitat: on shallow sandy reef flats.

Last update: 1/25/2005