Acanthopleura spinosa

(Bruguière, 1792) · species

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Animalia/Mollusca/Polyplacophora/Chitonida/Chitonidae/Acanthopleura

At a glance

Occurrence records387

Data sources8

Biological traits4

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections1

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Acanthopleura spinosa's data was compiled from.

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility327 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System60 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page5 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources4 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS387 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

01Narrative

Acanthopleura spinosa is een keverslakkensoort uit de familie van de Chitonidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1792 door Bruguière.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Size & morphology1

Body length9 cm

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonebenthic

Uses & economy1

Commercial importancecommercial

05DNA & barcoding1 specimens

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 Acanthopleura spinosa has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

BINs1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections1

Countries1

Marker genes sequenced

★ 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 type387 records

Wild obs. + sensor176

Museum / vouchered211

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO844 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit3

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 0.8 m · max 0.8 m · 3 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 accuracy88% within 1 km

≤100 m 77≤1 km 34≤10 km 6>10 km 9

126 georeferenced · 50 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor176

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 accuracy51% within 1 km

≤100 m 8≤1 km 39≤10 km 10>10 km 36

93 georeferenced · 118 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence211

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 institutions6 of 16 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Western Australian Museumlocation not on record	52
Museums Victorialocation not on record	24
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record	15
Brussels, BE	9
Cambridge, US	8
Philadelphia, US	7
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record	7
CASlocation not on record	6
Sydney, AU	6
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	5
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record	3
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	2
Natick, US	2
Delaware Museum of Nature and Sciencelocation not on record	1
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallerylocation not on record	1
Ann Arbor, US	1

16 institutions · 149 of 211 vouchered records shown · 2 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Acanthopleura spinosa was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found1

Studies independent surveys1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 countries0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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