Record (Lizard Island Field Guide)

Record details

species: Holothuria (Metriatyla) lessoni
Observed by Lyle Vail
Wed, 15 Oct 1980 00:00:00

Location details

  • Possibly Lizard Island, Queensland

  • Possibly "Out front" of LIRS (as on orginal slide mount caption), but could also have been from Ashmore Reef (Timor Sea) as the same photo appears there in Lyle Vail's 1988 unpublished report on Ashmore Reef holothurians.

  • Marine specimens found at a depth between 2 m and 6 metres.

Details about the specimen(s)

  • Specimen count is not recorded.
  • specimen(s) alive when found.
  • specimen(s) alive at end of the observation process.
  • specimen(s) left in natural environment.
  • Reproduction was not occurring.

Date is approximate, would have been sometime between 1978 and 1983.

Supporting photos