User:Cachola9/Holothuria flavomaculata

Comments by A. Faucci (Apr 3, 2024):

Nice work on finding lots of great information. To polish your draft before copying it over to the main article please work on the following:


 * I would swap the order of the sections on habitat and distribution so that the sections in the article are: Description, Distribution, Habitat, Exploitation.
 * Your section called observation is very interesting but not sure it belongs into this page on this specific species. Maybe you can take a few sentences from it to add or to description or to habitat. E.g. that they appear nocturnal.
 * Description: this is a very long sentence. I would make 2-3 out of it. one on length, one on overall color and one on those papillae. If you find something on biology, like that they are nocturnal etc. you can add that at the end.
 * Distribution: make sure you include Hawaii on your list as they do occur here.
 * Include the common or scientific species name at least at the beginning of a section so it is clear what you are talking about.
 * Make sure all your scientific species names are in italics. Also, the genus needs to be written out at the beginning of a sentence.
 * resource formatting: nice work on citing your sources correctly. When re-using a reference you already entered, use the Re-use tab when clicking on the "cite function so it won't make a bunch of references of the one same reference (currently your references 1-3 are the same)
 * Find one more source to get to the required 5. Here two that would work and have some useful info:
 * https://www.marinelifephotography.com/marine/echinoderms/cucumbers/holothuria-flavomaculata.htm
 * https://www.sealifebase.ca/summary/Holothuria-flavomaculata.html

Description
The entire body is dark grey, bluish-black, brownish-red to black, with notable pinkish, orangy, or reddish tips to the many big papillae and yellowish tentacles—an elongated sea cucumber, rather huge.

Habitat
They usually live in places covered in muck, sand, or coral debris and exist in water depths of 1 to 40 meters.

Exploitation
This species is harvested commercially in Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu in the western central Pacific.

Observation
Holothuria flavomaculata were only seen at night, in contrast to other sea cucumbers found during the day or both during the night—average length: 35 cm; maximum length: 60 cm. Most Holothuria genus have different eating period, although H.flavomaculata are continuously eating. Promoting and creating sustainable management and conservation programs for Pohnpei State's natural resources has fallen to the recently founded non-governmental organization, the Conservation Society of Pohnpei (CSP). One of CSP's ongoing projects is creating a management plan and marine conservation area for Lenger Island. The development and implementation of a sustainable aquatic resource management plan, a sustainable terrestrial management plan, community-based management structures, alternative income-generating activities, public awareness, training, and education programs, and steps to increase community capacity to manage a conservation area are the objectives of the Lenger Island conservation program. The study involved the observation of fifteen different species of sea cucumbers, including Bohadschia argus, Stichopus chloronotus,  Holothuria nobilis, H. horrens,  Holothuria edulis,  Holothuria fuscopunctata, H. flavomaculata, Thelenota ananas, Stichopus, Actinopyga palauensis, and  Actinopyga miliaris. Their population density suggests that, at least on the reefs under study, previous commercial harvesting has not significantly depleted population stocks. It should be mentioned that most commercially essential species prefer environments absent from Pohnpei's coastal islands.

Geographical Distribution
The western central Pacific and the Indian Ocean, reported from the Federated States of Micronesia, New Caledonia, Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands, the Red Sea, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Australia, and Clipperton Island to French Polynesia.