Pineapple Sea Cucumber

Thelenota ananas, also known as pineapple sea cucumber, oloturia ananas, tripang, prickly skin cucumber, pointed teat sea cucumber, armoured sea cucumber, giant sea cucumber, sand fish or prickly redfish, is a species of sea cucumber found in tropical Indo-Pacific waters from the Red Sea and East Africa to Hawaii, Polynesia, the Maldives and Australia.

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Pineapple Sea Cucumber being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Stichopus pseudohorrens

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Holothuroidea

Order

Synallactida

Family

Stichopodidae

Genus

Thelenota

Species

Thelenota ananas

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