Pinkfish
Holothuria edulis
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 44 diving areas across 21 countries and 7 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 10 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 10 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 5 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 13 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 73 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 82 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 7 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 41 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 2 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 66 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 91 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 166 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 273 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 19 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 7 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 3 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 14 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 41 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 41 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 45 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 3 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 5 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 5 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 5 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 3 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 3 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 8 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 37 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 16 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 18 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 27 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 18 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 10 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 5 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 5 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 7 records