Description Appearance in life: shaggy tentacles white in reflected light and pale blue in transmitted colour of ventral and dorsal...
Description Appearance in life: shaggy tentacles white in reflected light and pale blue in transmitted colour of ventral and dorsal surfaces mid brown with white papillae, where body wall expanded the papillae expand to translucent white patches (Humphreys, 1981).
Also distributed in Australia inKalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995); SE Arabia; Persian Gulf, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is.aAnd Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); India (Sastry, 1996).
General distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical Indo-west Pacific Ocean (also Panama), depth range 0-30 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
context source (Deepsea)Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online athttp://www.iobis.org/[details]
basis of recordTortonese, E. (1980). Researches on the coast of Somalia. Littoral Echinodermata. Monitore zoologico italiano NS Supplemento XIII 5: 99-139. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional sourceCherbonnier, G. (1952). Les Holothuries de Quoy et Gaimard. Mémoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, deuxième série = Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, tweede reeks, 44 Institut Royal des Sciences Naturellles de Belgique: Bruxelles. 50, III plates pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From other sources
Description Appearance in life: shaggy tentacles white in reflected light and pale blue in transmitted colour of ventral and dorsal surfaces mid brown with white papillae, where body wall expanded the papillae expand to translucent white patches (Humphreys, 1981).
Also distributed in Australia inKalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995); SE Arabia; Persian Gulf, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is.aAnd Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); India (Sastry, 1996).
General distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical Indo-west Pacific Ocean (also Panama), depth range 0-30 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark In Subgenus (Thymiosycia) Pearson, 1914. Holotype Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: Borobora Is., southwest Pacific Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]