Blackspotted Sea Cucumber
Pearsonothuria graeffei
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
- Pearsonothuria
Where to Find
Found in 32 diving areas across 19 countries and 5 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 71 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 78 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 1 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 83 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 2 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 20 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 8 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 37 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 90 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 10 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 6 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 15 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 24 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 12 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 3 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 5 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 6 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 2 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 6 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 2 records
- Yanbu, Saudi Arabia - 1 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 8 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 11 records