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Created 11/12/2020

Family Holothuriidae

TROPICAL WESTERN ATLANTIC

Holothuria mexicana



Jardines de la Reina, Cuba, 6 feet

Vandenburg, Key West, 60 feet

  

DONKEY DUNG SEA CUCUMBER

Common on sand and in seagrass beds.  Brown wrinkled body with fine black papillae.  Attains 20 inches.  Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Caribbean, and Brazil.