In Panama this species has been collected from Galeta Point (reef West of lab), Galeta Island (USNM E 24001, USNM E 24001), from Miria Island, (USNM E 21671, USNM E 21679, USNM E 21673, USNM E 21683, USNM E 21709), Pico Feo Island (USNM E 22477), San Blas Islands, and from North of Palina Island (USNM E 52888; Centroid Latitude: 9.61306, Centroid Longitude: -79.59722), Colon, Caribbean Sea.
Pourtalès, L. F. (1851). On the Holothuriae of the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Proceedings American Association Advancement Science, Fifth Meeting, Washington. pp. 8-16.
Selenka, E. (1867). Beiträge zur Anatomie und Systematik der Holothurien, Z. wiss. Zool. 17: 291-374, pls. 17-20.
World Register of Marine Species
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210900Cuvieria (Holothuria) floridana Pourtalès, 1851
Holothuria heilprini Ives, 1890
Holothuria nitida Ives, 1890
Holothuria silamensis Ives, 1890
Holothuria floridana, the Florida sea cucumber, is a species of marine invertebrate in the family Holothuriidae. It is found on the seabed just below the low tide mark in Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas and the Caribbean.[1]
Holothuria floridana can grow to a length of up to 8 inches (20 cm). It has an elongated cylindrical shape with a tough, leathery skin with blunt conical protuberances. On the underside it has several rows of short tube feet. On one end is the mouth surrounded by a ring of feeding tentacles. The body colour is mottled brown, fawn and white.[3]
It is found at depths of up to 5 metres (16 ft) on sand and on seagrass beds in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and the coasts of Florida.[4]
It moves across the sandy seabed sifting through the sand with its tentacles and feeding on detritus and other organic particles.[4]
Holothuria floridana, the Florida sea cucumber, is a species of marine invertebrate in the family Holothuriidae. It is found on the seabed just below the low tide mark in Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas and the Caribbean.
