''Thelenota'' is a genus of

sea cucumber Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea (). They are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad. Sea cucumbers are found on the sea floor worldwide. The number of holothuria ...

in the family

Stichopodidae The Stichopodidae are a family of sea cucumbers, part of the order Synallactida. Description Members of this family are mostly large or medium-sized holothuroids with a squarish cross-section, a flat ventral surface, and large, fleshy, cone-s ...

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Description and characteristics

They are massive sea cucumbers, more or less rectangular in cross-section. The oral face (called ''trivium'') is flat, and covered with numerous aligned podia. The tegument is thick, and covered with thick papillae and other tubercles. The oral tentacles are peltate, helping to collect the sediment to ingest.

Species

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Thelenota ananas ''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 ...

'' Jaeger, 1833 – Pineapple sea cucumber * ''

Thelenota anax ''Thelenota anax'' is a species of sea cucumber mostly found in the tropical, South Pacific Ocean. It is also commonly known as the amber fish. Some other names for ''T. anax'' are black teatfish, blackfish, brownfish, chief sea cucumber, curryfi ...

'' Clark, 1921 – Giant sea cucumber * '' Thelenota rubralineata'' Massin & Lane, 1991 – Red-lined sea cucumber File:Thelenota ananas at Umm Kararim.JPG, ''

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'' File:Thelenota Rubralinata, Bunaken Island.jpg, '' Thelenota rubralineata''

References

Stichopodidae Holothuroidea genera Taxa named by Johann Friedrich von Brandt {{Holothuroidea-stub