Thelenota ananas Thelenota ananas Thelenota ananas, also known as pineapple sea cucumber, oloturia ananas, tripang, prickly skin cucumber, pointed teat sea cucumber, armoured sea cucumber, giant sea cucumber, sand fish or prickly redfish, is a species of sea cucumber found in tropical Indo-Pacific waters from the Red Sea and East Africa to Hawaii and Polynesia. Its reddish-brown body with large and mostly branched papillae can reach up to in length. This species can be found on clean sandy bottoms of the ocean near large coral heads. It has a distinctive appearance with large pointed teats in groups of two or three all
Boletellus ananas including "Pinus" and "Quercus" species in southeastern North America and Central America, "Quercus humboldtii" in Colombia, various Fagaceae and Dipterocarpaceae species in Malaysia, and "Leptospermum" and "Pinus" species in New Zealand. In Guyana, the humic deposits on "Dicymbe" trunks bearing "B. ananas" are consistently permeated with abundant ectomycorrhizas. The fungus was reported as forming mycorrhizal associations with eucalypts in Australia, based on fruit body association with trees. Its North American distribution encompasses a range extending north from North Carolina to Florida, west to Texas and south to Mexico, and Central America. In 2008, it was reported for the first time