Achatinella sowerbyana — The Life Data

Animalia/Mollusca/Gastropoda/Stylommatophora/Achatinellidae/Achatinella

At a glance

Occurrence records246

Data sources6

Biological traits0

DNA specimens9

eDNA detections0

Sources6 archives

Databases and archives Achatinella sowerbyana's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility246 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics9 specimens↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page3 sections

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

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF246 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD9 specimens

01Narrative

Achatinella sowerbyana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinellidae. This species is endemic to Hawaii.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding9 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 Achatinella sowerbyana has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens9

BINs1

Marker genes1

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 type246 records

Wild obs. + sensor2

Museum / vouchered244

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO144 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy0% within 1 km

>10 km 2

2 georeferenced

Open the mapobservation + sensor2

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 accuracy4% within 1 km

≤1 km 3≤10 km 4>10 km 75

82 georeferenced · 162 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence244

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 institutions5 of 9 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Philadelphia, US	152
Chicago, US	68
Cambridge, US	8
Delaware Museum of Nature and Sciencelocation not on record	7
Denver, US	3
Ann Arbor, US	3
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record	1
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record	1
Paleontological Research Institutionlocation not on record	1

9 institutions · 244 of 244 vouchered records shown