STEVEN W. PURCELL1, CHANTAL CONAND2, SVEN UTHICKE3 & MARIA
BYRNE41National Marine Science Centre, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour …

Sea cucumbers are harvested and traded in more than 90 countries worldwide. They are
exploited in industrial and small-scale fisheries, nearly from pole to pole, especially in the …

Morphologically cryptic and pseudo-cryptic species pose a challenge to taxonomic
identification and assessments of species diversity and distributions. Such is the case for the …

The sea cucumber industry, which is known to be particularly vulnerable to overexploitation
and collapse, has been under tremendous pressure in Mauritius since the mid-2000s …

Several sea cucumber species (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) are fished, mostly for export
of the dried product for Oriental consumers. Previous studies had analysed the historical …

Understanding what determines spatio-temporal changes in echinoderm assemblages from
an integrative perspective that considers biodiversity, species evenness, and species' …

Three sea cucumber species, Holothuria atra, Holothuria leucospilota, and Stichopus
chloronotus, are patchily distributed within the coral reefs of Reunion Island, exhibiting …

The back-reef depressions, or lagoons, of Reunion Island (western Indian Ocean) host a
high abundance of organisms living amongst the coral reefs and are critical sites for …

Echinoderms from Reunion Island have been studied mostly from west coast reefs. A recent
faunal inventory (BIOLAvE) was conducted on the underwater lava flows of Piton de La …

The diversity and distribution of Holothuroidea in shallow waters of Baluran National Park,
Indonesia Page 1 BIODIVERSITAS ISSN: 1412-033X Volume 17, Number 1, April 2016 E-ISSN …