References and Links

Barnes, Harold, R. N. Gibson and Margaret Barnes. 2000. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review. Taylor and Francis Inc. New York, NY, USA.
 
Carpenter, Kent E. and Volker H. Niem (Eds.). 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 2. Cephalopods, crustaceans, holothurians and sharks. Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy.
 
Class Holothoroidea 1995. http://oz.plymouth.edu/~lts/invertebrates/Primer/text/holothuroidea.html. Accessed 16 March 2011.
 
Conand, C., J. Amand, N. Dijoux and J. Garryer. 1998. Fission in a population of Stichopus chloronotus on Renion Island, Indian Ocean. SPC Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin 10 http://wwwx.spc.int/coastfish/sections/reef/Library/InfoBull/BDM/10/Conand_10_15.pdf. Access 17 March 2011.
 
Conand, Chantal and Thierry Hoareau. 2001. Sexual reproduction of Stichopus chloronotus, a fissiparous sea cucumber. SPC Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin 15 http://wwwx.spc.int/coastfish/news/BDM/15/BDM15-02.htm. Accessed 16 March 2011.
 
Fredalina, B. D., B. H. Ridzwan, A. A. Zanial Abidin, M. A. Kaswandi, H. Zaiton, I. Zali, P. Kittakoop and A. M. Mat Jais. 1999. Fatty acid compositions in local sea cucumber, Stichopus chloronotus, for wound healing. General Pharmacology 33:337-340.
 
Hamel, J. F. and A. Mercier. 2010. Habitat utilisation, growth and predation of Cucumaria frondosa: implications for emerging sea cucumber fishery. Fisheries Management and Ecology 17:473-484.
 
Holothuroidea 2011. http://www.eol.org/pages/2012?text_id=8214100 . Accessed 17 March 2011.

Hyman, Libbie Henrietta. 1955. The invertebrates: Echinodermata. York, Pennsylvania, USA.
 
In situ observation of sexual reproduction in Stichopus chloronotus at a fringing reef at Reunion Island (Indian Ocean) 2004. http://www.spc.int/ . Accessed 16 March 2011.
 
James, D. B. and P. S.B. R. James. 1994. A hand-book on Indian sea-cucumbers. Paico Printing Press. Ernakulam, Chochin, India.
 
Jeffs, Andrew G. and Matthew J. Slater. 2010. Do benthic sediment characteristics explain the distribution of juveniles of the deposit-feeding sea cucumber Australostichopus mollis? Journal of Sea Research 64:241-249.
 
Kropp, Roy K. 1983. Responses of five holothurian species to attacks by a predatory gastropod, Tonna perdix. Pacific Science. http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/. Accessed 20 March 2011.
 
Ridzwan, B. H., T. C. Leong and S. Z. Idid. 2003. The antinociceptive effects of water extracts from sea cucumbers Holothuria leucospilota Brandt, Bohadschia marmorata vitiensis jaeger and coelomic fluid from Stichopus hermanii.Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences 6: 2068-2072.
 
Ruppert, Edward E., Richard S. Fox, and Robert D. Barnes. 2004. Invertebrate zoology: a functional evolutionary approach. Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, Belmont, California, USA.
 
Sea cucumber 1998. http://www.itmonline.org. Accessed 17 March 2011.
 
Sea cucumbers 2005. http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu. Accessed 18 March 2011.
  
Southward, A. J., P. A. Tyler, C. M. Young, and L. A. Fuiman. (Eds.) 2001. Advances in marine biology. Vol. 41. Bodmin, Cornwall, UK.
 
Uthiicke, Sven. 2000. The process of asexual reproduction by transverse fission in Stichopus chloronotus (greenfish). SPC Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin 14. http://wwwx.spc.int/coastfish/News/bdm/14/BDM14-06.htm. Accessed 14 March 2011.
 
Wilmonth, James H. 1967. Biology of invertebrata. Prentice-Hall. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.

 Links
Here are some links to other informational websites on sea cucumbers and Stichopus chloronotus.

Sea Base Life   http://www.sealifebase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=83494

Institute for Traditional  http://www.itmonline.org/arts/seacucumber.htm

Vie Océane http://vieoceane.free.fr/articles/stichopus.html

Tree of Life Web Project  http://tolweb.org/Holothuroidea

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