Achirus lineatus
(Linnaeus, 1758) · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Achirus lineatus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility6 253 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System5 783 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI55 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics70 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
The lined sole (Achirus lineatus) is a ray-finned flatfish found in the Western Atlantic. Its common length is 17 cm.Cervigón, F., R. Cipriani, W. Fischer, L. Garibaldi, M. Hendrickx, A.J. Lemus, R. Márquez, J.M. Poutiers, G. Robaina and B. Rodriguez (1992). Fichas FAO de identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Guía de campo de las especies comerciales marinas y de aquas salobres de la costa septentrional de Sur América. FAO, Rome. Often considered a trash fish in commercial trawling, it is of little or no economic value.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology2
Habitat & environment3
Uses & economy1
Other traits3
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 Achirus lineatus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ 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.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type12 036 records
Origin
Range
Depth
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions19 of 54 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 437 |
| University of Texas Biodiversity Collections (UTBC)location not on record | 352 |
| Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Unidad Irapuato, Instituto Politécnico Nacionallocation not on record | 88 |
| Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Natural History Collectionlocation not on record | 86 |
| Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record | 70 |
| Tapachula, MX | 58 |
| Washington, US | 49 |
| INMAlocation not on record | 44 |
| Mexico City, MX | 41 |
| Chicago, US | 39 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 37 |
| CASlocation not on record | 33 |
| UFESlocation not on record | 32 |
| Cambridge, US | 30 |
| Louisiana State University, Museum of Zoologylocation not on record | 30 |
| Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulolocation not on record | 21 |
| FishBaselocation not on record | 19 |
| University of Alabamalocation not on record | 14 |
| New Haven, US | 13 |
| San Nicolás de los Garza, MX | 13 |
| Universidad del Valle (UniValle)location not on record | 13 |
| Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirolocation not on record | 12 |
| University of California San Diegolocation not on record | 12 |
| Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicolocation not on record | 11 |
| Mexico City, MX | 11 |
| UFRRJlocation not on record | 10 |
| PUC-RSlocation not on record | 10 |
| Southeastern Louisiana University, Vertebrate Museumlocation not on record | 10 |
| Ciudad de México, MX | 10 |
| Los Angeles, US | 8 |
| North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record | 8 |
| Research Collection of Benjamin Victorlocation not on record | 8 |
| Montgomery, US | 6 |
| UNICAMPlocation not on record | 6 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 5 |
| University of Nebraskalocation not on record | 5 |
| Toronto, CA | 4 |
| Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Unidad Académica de Sistemas Arrecifales, Puerto Morelos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicolocation not on record | 4 |
| Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record | 4 |
| 4 | |
| Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldilocation not on record | 3 |
| Geneva, CH | 3 |
| Universidad del Valle de Guatemalalocation not on record | 3 |
| University of Minnesota, James Ford Bell Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 2 |
| Champaign, US | 2 |
| USP-RPlocation not on record | 2 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 2 |
| CAJlocation not on record | 2 |
| Universidad del Tolima (UT)location not on record | 1 |
| Paris, FR | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 1 |
| Central Michigan University Museum of Cultural and Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversitylocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Achirus lineatus 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
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
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.