Black Teatfish
Holothuria nobilis
Category: Sea Cucumbers
IUCN Conservation Status: EN - Endangered - facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Holothuroidea
- Order
- Holothuriida
- Family
- Holothuriidae
- Genus
- Holothuria
Where to Find
Found in 26 diving areas across 21 countries and 5 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 26 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 31 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 4 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 1 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 4 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 6 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 22 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 115 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 171 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 4 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 19 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 20 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 4 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 7 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 6 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 8 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 4 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 2 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 1 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records