---
title: "Pineapple Sea Cucumber"
description: "Thelenota ananas — Outros animais. 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, Polynesia, the Maldives and Australia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/pineapple-sea-cucumber
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pineapple Sea Cucumber

> Thelenota ananas — Outros animais. 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, Polynesia, the Maldives and Australia.

- Scientific name: *Thelenota ananas*
- Category: `other` (Outros animais)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 1313
- Wikidata: [Q485586](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q485586)
- iNaturalist taxon: [83882](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/83882)

## Names

- en: Pineapple Sea Cucumber
- de: Ananas-Seewalze
- fr: Concombre de mer épineux

## Countries with the most observations

AU (106), PF (79), NC (53), SC (40), ID (38), PW (38), FJ (31), WF (29), GU (28), TH (27), VU (23), YT (20)

## Summary

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, Polynesia, the Maldives and Australia.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelenota_ananas

## Photo

![Pineapple Sea Cucumber](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pineapple-sea-cucumber/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/298154008

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pineapple-sea-cucumber?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).