Amberfish
Thelenota anax
Category: Sea Cucumbers
IUCN Conservation Status: DD - Data Deficient - not enough data to assess extinction risk
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Holothuroidea
- Order
- Synallactida
- Family
- Stichopodidae
- Genus
- Thelenota
Where to Find
Found in 17 diving areas across 14 countries and 4 regions.
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 40 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 22 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 3 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 29 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 57 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 4 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 11 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 25 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records