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Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea
Smooth red sea cucumber
Actinopyga sp.
Family Holothuriidae
updated Sep 08

Where seen? This small red sea cucumber was seen once on Pulau Semakau.

Features: About 8cm long. Body oval with a smooth skin and lots of slender tube feet scattered all over it. It may be the same as the Actinopyga sp. in Lane's guide of which "just a single specimen was seen, from the reef slope of Sultan Shoal".


Pulau Semakau, Mar 08


Cyrene Reef, Mar 09

Shared by Loh Kok Sheng on his blog.

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