Stichopus chloronotus

Green Gear sea cucumber ( Stichopus chloronotus )

The Green Gear sea cucumber ( Stichopus chloronotus ) occurs to Japan, Hawaii and the islands of the South Pacific in the western Indo-Pacific from the coast of East Africa on the Mascarene Islands. Young animals live in depths of up to two meters on the coral rubble of Riffterrassen, they prefer areas with strong water movement. Older sea cucumbers live in depths up to 15 meters in indoor and outdoor reefs.

Features

The Green Gear Seewalze is 30 inches long. Your body cross-section is almost square. There are two double rows of large conical papillae, whose ends are red or orange on the side edges of the back. At the bottom it has three rows of tube feet. The mouth is on the bottom and is surrounded by 20 oral tentacles. The anus is terminal. The type has no Cuvier hoses.

The Green Gear Seewalze feeds by absorbing ground, digested the organic particles, detritus, algae and micro-organisms and the rest is eliminated again. On its underside, often lives a black shed worm.

It is eaten by the ton screw Tonna perdix. As a "Green Fish" it comes to the trepang market.