Giant Orange Sea Cucumber

Apostichopus leukothele

• Group: Sea Cucumber
• IUCN status: LC

A soft bodied giant that creeps along the continental shelf, this sea cucumber works over soft, hard and mixed bottoms alike. It hauls its bright orange body slowly across the seabed, sifting organic matter from the sediment as it goes.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Echinodermata › Holothuroidea › Synallactida › Stichopodidae › Apostichopus

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 529431.