Acanthosepion aculeatum

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Animalia/Mollusca/Cephalopoda/Sepiida/Sepiidae/Acanthosepion

At a glance

Occurrence records62

Data sources6

Biological traits8

DNA specimens2

eDNA detections45

Sources6 archives

Databases and archives Acanthosepion aculeatum's data was compiled from.

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility28 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System34 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI45 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗

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 sources8 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS62 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 7 countries45 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD2 specimens

01Narrative

Sepia aculeata is een soort in de taxonomische indeling van de inktvissen, een klasse dieren die tot de stam der weekdieren (Mollusca) behoort. De inktvis komt enkel in zout water voor en is in staat om van kleur te veranderen. Hij beweegt zich voort door water in zijn mantel te pompen en het er via de sifon weer krachtig uit te persen. De inktvis is een carnivoor en zijn voedsel bestaat voornamelijk uit vis, krabben, kreeften en weekdieren die ze met de zuignappen op hun grijparmen vangen. De inktvis komt uit het geslacht Sepia en behoort tot de familie Sepiidae. Sepia aculeata werd in 1835 beschreven door Van Hasselt in Férussac & d'Orbigny.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Size & morphology2

Body length23 cm

Body mass1 300 g

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonebenthic

Uses & economy1

Commercial importancecommercial

Other traits3

Depth max60 m

Depth min0 m

Vulnerability13

05DNA & barcoding2 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 Acanthosepion aculeatum has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens2

BINs1

Marker genes2

eDNA detections45

Countries7

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-5P16S

animal barcoderibosomal

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type62 records

Wild obs. + sensor50

Museum / vouchered12

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO192 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit3

200–1000 m twilight2

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 20 m · max 514 m · 5 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 accuracy83% within 1 km

≤100 m 8≤1 km 2>10 km 2

12 georeferenced · 38 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor50

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 accuracy0% within 1 km

≤10 km 2

2 georeferenced · 10 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence12

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 institutions1 of 1 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Cambridge, US	1

1 institutions · 1 of 12 vouchered records shown · 5 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA45 detections

Where the DNA of Acanthosepion aculeatum 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 found45

Studies independent surveys1

Countries7

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

Where its DNA was found

0 of 45 detections have coordinates

Open the map7 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.

Modelled climatemodelled

−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C

Temperature median21.9 °C 10.0–26.4

Seasonal swing summer↔winter17.4 °C

Max temp (day)25.6 °C 15.7–29.6

Min temp (night)16.7 °C 3.10–24.6

Precipitation30.5 mm/mo 0.2–109

Air humidity58.3 % 44.5–65.0

Moisture balance-9.80 mm/mo

Vapour deficit1,038 Pa 782–1,624

Wind speed4.70 m/s

Cloud cover24.7 % 14.2–57.4

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 14 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche

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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