#5039 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
giant California sea cucumber
Apostichopus californicus
📍 Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK, USA
📍 Squamish Harbour, Squamish-Lillooet, BC, CA
📍 Sitka, AK, USA
📍 Edwards St, Trinidad, CA, US
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Karolle Wall · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © sea_goin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © MacKenna · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © numinous · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © morrisoncreek · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK, USA:© Serena Tierra · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Squamish Harbour, Squamish-Lillooet, BC, CA:© Shelby Connelly · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Sitka, AK, USA:© Karen L. Johnson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Edwards St, Trinidad, CA, US:© Noah M. Morales · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 5,172 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by William Stimpson in 1857 (169 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- giant California sea cucumber
- scientific name
- Apostichopus californicus
- class
- Holothuroidea
- order
- Synallactida
- family
- Stichopodidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 5,172
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1857 by William Stimpson
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 202640, Wikidata Q27157894, GBIF 5967442, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.