Holothuria (Lessonothuria) pardalis Selenka 1867

Scambicornus modestus (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: endoparasitic)

In Panama this species has been collected from the Perlas Archipelago (USNM E 22544), Gulf of Panama, and from Uva Island (USNM E 39254), Contreras Islands, Gulf of Chiriqui, eastern Pacific, where it occured between branches of living Pocillopora spp. coral.

Selenka, E. (1867). Beitrage zur Anatomie und Systematik der Holothurien. Der Philosophischen Facultat zu Gottingen in December 1866, als Dissertation vorgelegt.: pp. 291-374.

Helfer, C., 1913. Noch enige von Dr. Hartmeyer im Golf von Suez gesammelte Holothurien. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 41: 433–439.

Lampert, K. (1896). Die von Dr. Stuhlmann in den Jahren 1888 und 1889 an der Ostküste Afrikas gesammelten Holothurien. Mittheilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum Hamburg, XIII:40.

Ludwig, H. L. (1875). Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Holothurien. Arbeiten aus dem zoolog. zootom. Institut in Würzburg 2 (2): 77-120, pl. 6-7.

World Register of Marine Species

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Holothuria peregrina Ludwig, 1875
Holothuria tenuicornis Helfer, 1913
Lessonothuria pardalis Selenka, 1867

Colour in life: grey-brown to green-brown sometimes with globular appearance (Clark & Rowe, 1971). The colour is always grey, uniform or with variable brown bands or with a series of 8-10 pairs of brown blotches along the back or with many black spots (Tortonese, 1980). It should be noted that the spicules of various specimens which have been attributed to H. paradalis show a wide range of form and the species is therefore in need of review (Sloan et al., 1979). General distribution: from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-?10 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Also distributed in Sandwich Is. (Selenka, 1867); Iranian Gulf (Heding, 1940); SE Arabia, 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); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995).