Holothuria thomasi: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Holothuroidea
- Order
- Holothuriida
- Family
- Holothuriidae
- Genus
- Holothuria
- Species
- Holothuria thomasi
- Scientific Name
- Holothuria thomasi
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Holothuria thomasi
Holothuria thomasi, the tiger's tail, is a species of sea cucumber in the family Holothuriidae. Although it is the largest sea cucumber known in the western Atlantic Ocean, it is so well camouflaged that it was 1980 before it was first described. It is placed in the subgenus Thymiosycia making its full name Holothuria (Thymiosycia) thomasi.
...Holothuria thomasi in languages:
- English
- Tiger Tail Sea Cucumber
- French
- Holothurie queue de tigre
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