What generally affects the distribution of Sea Cucumbers?

Any organisms' distribution is influenced by basic ecological factors. Where do the things it eats live, where do the things that eat it live, can it hide, temperature, nutrient availability, whether they co-occur with their own kind or other species, how it reproduces, etc. read more

A sea cucumber is an animal looking like the fruit, not exactly, which is radially symmetrical & belonging to Phylum Echinodermata.They are also called as Holothurians. They are all benthic animals, with echenis - small thorns on its body, with ambulacral canal system - which is a respiratory cum locomatory in function. read more

Sea cucumbers were generally found in sandy-muddy substrate and were more abundant in the deeper part of the sampling area and during night sampling. Sea water temperature is within the normal range but the salinity is on average lower. read more