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
Whistling fruit dove is declining due to habitat loss. Whistling fruit dove The whistling fruit dove ("Ptilinopus layardi"), also known as the velvet dove or yellow-headed dove, is a small fruit dove from Fiji. The species is endemic to the islands of Kadavu and Ono in the Kadavu Group in the south of Fiji. The whistling fruit dove is the most primitive of the "golden doves", a small subgroup of the genus "Ptilinopus" which includes two other small Fijian fruit doves, the golden fruit dove and the orange fruit dove. The group was once split into its own genus, "Chrysoenas". The whistling fruit