Ecological Study of Sea Cucumber Central Moluccas

Abstract

Teripang (Sea cucumber) is one of echinoderm members which has an important economical value and can be found in Moluccas Waters. Among Sea cucumber in Moluccas, H. scabra, H. nobilis, H. edulis, H. atra, T. ananas, and B. argus have been mass exploited causing the decreasing not only in their kind but also in their quantity. This study aims to determine the ecological condition of Sea cucumber in four locations in Central Moluccas Regency from July to December 2013. The results showed that there was the presence of species composition variety, density, different distribution pattern among locations. Diversity and similarity of Sea cucumber species among those locations were obtained to be low category.