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Holothuria vemae

species of echinoderm

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ1836509 ↗
Source-derived summary

Holothuria (Roweothuria) vemae is a species of sea cucumber first described by Thandar in 1988. It is distributed in the south-eastern Atlantic Ocean, specifically off the coast of South Africa.

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“Holothuria vemae” enters the record as species of echinoderm. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Holothuria, vemae and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Holothuria, vemae and species.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1836509. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Holothuria vemae” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.