Holothuria floridana, Florida sea cucumber : fisheries
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Holothuria floridana   Pourtales, 1851

Florida sea cucumber

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Holothuroidea | Holothuriida | Holothuriidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Benthic; depth range 0 - 2 m (Ref. 111335).  Tropical; 31°N - 8°N, 98°W - 58°W

Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Western Central Atlantic: Belize.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 51.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 702)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Found on mangrove swamp and beach shoreline (Ref. 111335).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Members of the class Holothuroidea are gonochoric and have only one gonad. Spawning and fertilization are both external and some exhibit brooding. Life cycle: Embryos develop into planktotrophic larvae (auricularia) then into doliolaria (barrel-shaped stage) which later metamorphose into juvenile sea cucumbers.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Hendler, G. and D.L. Pawson 2000 Echinoderms of the Rhomboidal Cays, Belize: Biodiversity, distribution, and ecology. Atoll Research Bulletin 479:275-299. (Ref. 86570)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 19 May 2010

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
FAO - Publication: search | FishSource |

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Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO - Publication: search | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Resilience
(Ref. 69278):		 Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.21)
Fishing Vulnerability
(Ref. 71543)		 Moderate vulnerability (36 of 100).
Price category
(Ref. 80766):		 Unknown.