Cucumaria echinata

Cucumaria echinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Holothuroidea
Order: Dendrochirotida
Family: Cucumariidae
Genus: Cucumaria
Species: C. echinata
Binomial name
Cucumaria echinata
Von Marenzeller
Synonyms

Pseudocnus echinatus

Cucumaria echinata is a sea cucumber species in the genus Cucumaria.

Cucumaria echinata is found in the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea and Bay of Bengal to China and Japan. It is known to produce a lectin that has the ability to block the development of Plasmodium, the causal agent of malaria, when it is expressed in genetically modified Anopheles mosquitoes.[1]


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