Prickly Redfish
Thelenota ananas
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
- Synallactida
- Family
- Stichopodidae
- Genus
- Thelenota
Where to Find
Found in 34 diving areas across 20 countries and 5 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 29 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 7 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 23 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 20 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 9 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 2 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 4 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 12 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 18 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 54 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 128 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 13 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 10 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 6 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 20 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 5 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 4 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 5 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 9 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records