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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements1 literature sources2 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS532 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD8 specimens
01Narrative
Acanthicolepis asperrima is een borstelworm uit de familie Polynoidae. Het lichaam van de worm bestaat uit een kop, een cilindrisch, gesegmenteerd lichaam en een staartstukje. De kop bestaat uit een prostomium en een peristomium en draagt gepaarde aanhangsels. Acanthicolepis asperrima werd in 1861 voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door M. Sars.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Acanthicolepis asperrima has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens8
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries1
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus3 specimens
ACGT
▸ drag or hover over the strip to read any position — letter and how much it varies
Violet ticks below the strip = positions where individuals differ; flat = the species' unchanging signature. 98% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 10 variable positions, in barcode order
Each circle is a barcode variant; bigger = more specimens, colour = region. Lines join the most similar variants and the tick marks count the mutations between them — a tight cluster is one “dialect”, a long line a more divergent lineage. Click a circle to list its actual specimens.
Diversity (π)1.0%
Haplotypes3
BIN1
Most divergent pair1.4%
Europe
Closest relatives by DNA barcode
The species whose COI barcode is most similar to this one — a quick “who is this most like”. The percentage is how much the barcode differs; it approximates, but is not, the full evolutionary tree.
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★COI-5P
animal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type532 records
Wild obs. + sensor137
Museum / vouchered257
Other138
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO928 km²
Depth
0–200 m sunlit27
200–1000 m twilight134
1–4 km midnight5
>4 km abyssal0
median 270 m · max 1 420 m · 166 records with depth
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km
≤100 m 134≤1 km 1
135 georeferenced · 2 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor137
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km
≤100 m 25≤1 km 7
32 georeferenced · 225 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence257
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions4 of 10 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Norwegian Institute of Marine Researchlocation not on record
37
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
15
NHMOlocation not on record
13
Bergen, NO
7
Gothenburg, SE
3
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
3
CEFASlocation not on record
3
WoRMS Editorial Boardlocation not on record
2
Stockholm, SE
1
Frankfurt am Main
1
10 institutions · 85 of 257 vouchered records shown · 74 without an institution code
