Fascinating, whatever it is. Have not seen that before.

The photo is pretty poor, and only one to go on. Kim, can you (or the field researchers) be 100% certain that it is a holothuroid?

Best regards,

Steve

p.s. was in Maluku province, Indonesia, last week and happy to see for my own eyes that there are still some sea cucumbers left there!

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Very interesting. Wonder what the ossicles look like. Any chance of it being young of atra or leucospilota?

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Now I see the other pictures - only one (the close-up) downloaded at first.

Fingers and dead rubble of Acropora branches give an approx. scale - pretty small !

Dave Lane

Research Associate

LKC Natural History NMuseum

National University of Singapore

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