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Pineapplefish
Thelenota ananas
- Usual depth4–15 m
- Water temperature24–29 °C
- Best monthsSeptember and October
- How commonOccasional
About this species
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.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Thelenota ananas”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 13 records
- February: 9 records
- March: 1 records
- April: 5 records
- May: 10 records
- June: 14 records
- July: 14 records
- August: 2 records
- September: 42 records
- October: 27 records
- November: 0 records
- December: 1 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 4–15 m · Deepest record: 50 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 24–29 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Pineapplefish, Pineapple Sea Cucumber, Prickly Redfish
Names in 5 more languages
- German
- Ananas-Seewalze
- French
- Concombre de mer épineux, Holothurie ananas
- Indonesian
- Nanas, Pandan, Plum flower trepang
- Japanese
- バイカナマコ
- Simplified Chinese
- 梅花參
Other scientific names: Actinopyga formosa, Holothuria (Holothuria) ananas, Holothuria (Thelenota) grandis, Holothuria ananas, Holothuria hystrix, Muelleria formosa, Trepang ananas
Similar species
- Amberfish
Thelenota anax
- California sea cucumber
Apostichopus californicus
- Japanese sea cucumber
Apostichopus japonicus
- Australasian Brown Sea Cucumber
Australostichopus mollis
- Greenfish
Stichopus chloronotus
- Dragonfish
Stichopus horrens
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 513 open-data records from 1833 to 2025.
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