Dear Narindra/Priscilla
As with most holothuriid species it is very difficult to assign a name to a species without a picture of the ossicles. Can you oblige with this? At first guess, since you state that it was discovered in mangrove biotope, I would guess it is perhaps the
fairly common West Indian Ocean H. (Selenkothuria) parva (Lampert). It could also be the endemic Southern
African Neostichopus grammatus (H.L. Clark). The latter is a soft jelly-like species which is usually reddish or pinkish but can also occur as a brown variety.
Ahmed Thandar
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Hello every body
I need your help to identify this species from Mangrove biotop in Madagascar.
Cheers,
Pricilla Rakotoarisoa
Doctorante en Biologie Marine
Université de Mons
Dear Alex,
Felicitation for this excellent paper. Obviously, large, abundant and coloured holothurian species are still to be discovered.
Best regards
Claude
At 11:18 26/04/2013 +1000, you wrote:
Gday aspidolist,
Pls find attached a description of a new sp of Holothuria from the western Pacific.
Thanks to all for sending specimens and photo records.
Cheers,
Alex
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