Black sea cucumber
Holothuria atra
Category: Sea Cucumbers
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Holothuroidea
- Order
- Holothuriida
- Family
- Holothuriidae
- Genus
- Holothuria
Where to Find
Found in 61 diving areas across 36 countries and 8 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 12 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 12 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 7 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 132 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 4 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 151 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 155 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 1 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 156 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 1 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 24 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 46 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 15 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 93 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 128 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 3 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 32 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 184 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 34 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 355 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 622 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 7 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 332 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 389 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 24 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 38 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 6 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 28 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 173 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 24 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 8 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 2 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 3 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 3 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 10 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 22 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 2 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 2 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 4 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 3 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 3 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 69 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 65 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 54 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 21 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 9 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 1 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 21 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 4 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 3 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 10 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 7 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 5 records