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Aureolated Sea Cucumber
Holothuria sanctori
42.5854, 18.2175
Field Notes
Description:
This Sea Cucumber is an elongated and cylindrical, and about 25-30 long, and about 5-6 in diameter. Its background colour is dark brown, but is covered by a number of white to yellowish halos around the base of the papillae. Depending on the density of these rings, some individuals may appear much lighter - on the other extreme, some animals are uniformly brown (see pic N°5).
Habitat:
Here photographed on several occasions in Bay of Cavtat (Dubrovnik riviera), on rocky bottoms in shallow waters near the shoreline. Rocks here are reaching the surface, providing many hiding places, slopping down to 10m gradually. The sea bottom here is rocky, creating many crevasses and tunnels, and rocks are abundantly covered in algae. In those deeper waters, there are some large colonies of sea grass settled on patches of sand.
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