Endangered
Holothuria scabra
Holothuria scabra
Holothuria scabra is an animal in the family Holothuriidae (order Holothuriida), recorded as Endangered.
Range and habitat
The species can be found in the Indo-Pacific region, from east Africa to the eastern Pacific. Some have been found in the Persian Gulf, Iran. The sandfish inhabits shallow tropical waters, <20 m deep.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
This starts when the adults spawn. Male and females have distinct mating behaviors. When they spawn males erect their bodies and sway from side to side as they release sperm into the surrounding water.
In crisis
The sandfish is listed as an endangered with populations declining by the IUCN Red List.
Holothuria scabra is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Holothuria scabra, Wikidata item Q2395506. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
