Editing Sea cucumber (section)

=== Food ===
{{Main|Sea cucumber as food}}
[[File:Yokohama Chinese Medicine Sea cucumber 2.jpg|thumb|Dried sea cucumbers in a Japanese pharmacy]]
To supply the markets of [[Southern China]], [[Makassar]] [[trepanger]]s traded with the [[Indigenous Australians]] of [[Arnhem Land]] from at least the 18th century and probably earlier. This is the first recorded example of [[Makassan contact with Australia|trade between the inhabitants of the Australian continent and their Asian neighbours]].<ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-0-522-84088-9|last=MacKnight |first=CC |year=1976|title= The Voyage to Marege: Macassan Trepangers in Northern Australia|publisher= Melbourne University Press}} {{Cite journal|last= Tippett| first= A. R.|title=The Voyage to Marege: Macassan Teripangers in Northern Australia}}</ref>

There are many commercially important species of sea cucumber that are harvested and dried for export for use in [[Chinese cuisine]] as ''hoisam''.<ref name="Purcell2023">{{cite journal|last1=Purcell|first1= Steven W.|last2=Lovatelli|first2=Alessandro|last3=González-Wangüemert|first3=Mercedes|last4=Solís-Marín|first4=Francisco A.|last5=Samyn|first5=Yves|last6=Conand|first6=Chantal|name-list-style=&|title=Commercially important sea cucumbers of the world|year=2023|journal=FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes|number=6|edition=2nd|location=Rome|publisher=[[Food and Agriculture Organization|Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)]]|doi=10.4060/cc5230en|doi-access=free|issn=1020-8682|isbn=978-92-5-137793-2|url=https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/83beabbc-bdeb-4ecb-bef6-38716e4bfb88|access-date=18 May 2024}}</ref> Some of the more commonly found species in markets include:<ref name="Purcell2023"/><ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.1071/MF02145 |last1= Ramofafia |first1= C. |last2= Byrne |first2= M. |last3= Battaglene| first3= S. C. |title=Development of three commercial sea cucumbers, ''Holothuria scabra'', ''H. fuscogilva'' and ''Actinopyga mauritiana'': larval structure and growth|journal=Marine and Freshwater Research |volume=54|pages=657–667 |year=2003 | issn=1323-1650 |issue=5|bibcode= 2003MFRes..54..657R }}</ref>
* ''[[Acaudina molpadioides]]''
* ''[[Actinopyga echinites]]''
* ''[[Actinopyga mauritiana]]''
* ''[[Actinopyga palauensis]]''
* ''[[Apostichopus californicus]]''
* ''[[Apostichopus japonicus]]''
* ''[[Holothuria nobilis]]''
* ''[[Holothuria scabra]]''
* ''[[Holothuria fuscogilva]]''
* ''[[Isostichopus fuscus]]''
* ''[[Thelenota ananas]]''