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 spirally arranged, faint golden encrusting pigments that can be seen in KOH, Melzer's reagent, and water. Clamp connections are absent in this species. The typical variety of "Boletellus ananas" has consistently larger fruit bodies than "B. ananas" var. "minor" Singer from Brazil and Nicaragua, and lacks the thick-walled cheilocystidia of "B. ananas" var. "crassotunicatus" Singer from Nicaragua and Panama. Although the mushroom is used as a food in Mexico, field guides list it as "inedible" or "not recommended". "Strobilomyces strobilaceus" is roughly similar in appearance because of its rough scaly cap and lacerated margin, but may be distinguished from "B.