Seawater pollution has become a serious and worrying global threat. Human activities such as intensive aquaculture have deleterious effects on the marine environment. Intensive aquaculture is one of the major contributors to increased levels of organic waste and toxic compounds (Gondwe et al., 2012;Vezzulli et al., 2008).Therefore, rapid intervention is required through the adoption of bioremediation solutions. Detritivores such as sea cucumbers are ideal candidates for seawater bioremediation (Cubillo et al., 2016;Zamora et al., 2016). Sea cucumbers belong to the Echinodermata, Holothuroidea class, and are sessile invertebrates that inhabit a vast diversity of marine ecosystems including the intertidal zone and deeper seas (Weinrauch & Blewett, 2019). In these marine ecosystems, Holothuria (Roweothuria) poli Delle chiaje, 1824, one of the most common and widely distributed sea cucumbers in the Mediterranean, plays a functional role in nutrient recycling and food resource redis-
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