Holothuria (Holothuria) tubulosa Gmelin, 1791

Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), Zootaxa 4639 (1), pp. 1-231 : 176

Erroneous— Holothuria (Holothuria) tubulosa Gmelin, 1791

Reports for the Azores:

non Holothuria tubulosa Gmelin, 1790 — Nobre 1924: 89, 1930: 23, 1938: 143–144, figs. 58.1, 69.1 [misidentification]; Pawson & Shirley 1977: 915 [based on previous misidentifications]; Marques 1983: 4, fig. 8 [misidentification]; Pereira 1997: 333 [based on previous misidentifications]; Morton et al. 1998: 98, 169, figs. 5.2T, 8.8R [misidentification]; Wirtz 2009a: 46 [misidentification]; Micael & Costa 2010: 323 [based on previous misidentifications]; Micael et al. 2010: 329 [based on previous misidentifications]; Micael et al. 2012: 4 [based on previous misidentifications].

Type locality: Mediterranean Sea.

See: Tortonese (1965: 53–56, figs. 16, 17); Borrero-Pérez et al. (2009).

Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea ( Tortonese 1965).

Depth: 0–100 m ( Tortonese 1965).

Habitat: sand, mud to gravel, on sea grass prairies ( Tortonese 1965).

Larval stage: probably planktotrophic (inferred from the genus; see McEdward & Miner 2001).

Commercial value: edible ( Sicuro & Levine 2011).

Remarks: see remarks under H. mammata .