Thelenota ananas: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the thelenota ananas lives – recorded in 15 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Thelenota ananas
Group	Starfish, sea urchins & relatives
Status	Endangered (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	15 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Oceania
Class	Echinoderm
Order	Synallactida
Family	Stichopodidae

Where does the thelenota ananas live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the thelenota ananas in 15 countries and territories across Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the thelenota ananas endangered?

The thelenota ananas’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Endangered” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the thelenota ananas?

The thelenota ananas (Thelenota ananas) is an echinoderm in the order Synallactida and the family Stichopodidae, genus Thelenota. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the thelenota ananas

Thelenota ananas, also known as pineapple sea cucumber, oloturia ananas, tripang, prickly skin cucumber, pointed teat sea cucumber, armoured sea cucumber, giant sea cucumber, sand fish or prickly redfish, is a species of sea cucumber found in tropical Indo-Pacific waters from the Red Sea and East Africa to Hawaii, Polynesia, the Maldives and Australia.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Thelenota ananas (revision 1373554769), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q485586 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).