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Colour in life: when contracted is deep chocolate brown and creviced surface; crevices bordered with light grey border; uniformly deep brown immediately surrounding cloaca; grey below (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed in W India, Pakistan, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific IS. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971).; India (Sastry, 1996); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Widely distributed in the tropical Indo-Pacific; from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, shallow waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder H. martensii in Pearson, 1910.
2. Huxley, A. (1997)
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