Specimen Details

  • Taxon Name

    Physignathus lesueurii howittii

  • Author and date of publication

    McCoy, 1884

  • Preferred Common name

    Gippsland Water Dragon

  • Identified By

    Rory O'Brien - Museum Victoria

  • Number Of Specimens

    1

  • Sex

    Unknown

  • Specimen Nature

    Nature: Tissue, Form: Frozen, Fixative treatment: ethanol 95%, Medium: ethanol 95%

  • Tissue Details

    Type: Liver, Preservative: ethanol 96%, Storage temperature: -196°C

  • Tissue sampled from

    Museums Victoria specimen D 76859

  • Collected By

    Mr Anthony (Tony) Mitchell - Department of Sustainability and Environment

  • Sampling Method

    road kill

  • Date Visited From

    13/09/2000

  • Date Visited To

    13/09/2000

  • Category

    Natural Sciences

  • Scientific Group

    Vertebrate Zoology

  • Discipline

    DNA Laboratory

  • Collecting Areas

    Tissue and DNA

  • Type of Item

    Specimen

Taxonomy

Geospatial Information

  • Country

    Australia

  • State

    Victoria

  • Town

    Orbost

  • Precise Location

    500 metres N of Bonang Highway

  • Latitude

    -37.7

  • Longitude

    148.45

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Georeference Protocol

    geoscience Australia - Place names website