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
Rapa fruit dove the introduced Chinese guava Psidium cattleianum. Destruction of forests due to goats, cattle, fires used to clear out forest to grazing land for livestock, and deforestation are main threats to the rare dove. Predation by feral cats and the Polynesian rat are also possible threats to this species. Rapa fruit dove The Rapa fruit dove ("Ptilinopus huttoni") is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to French Polynesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. The dove is approximately 31 centimeters tall, a medium sized pigeon. It