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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements1 literature sources4 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF9 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD31 specimens
01Narrative
The Zanzibar guitarfish (Rhinobatos zanzibarensis) is a species of fish in the Rhinobatidae family endemic to Tanzania. Its natural habitats are open seas and shallow seas.
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 Acroteriobatus zanzibarensis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens31
BINs1
Marker genes2
Countries1
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P531 bp consensus16 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. 99% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 7 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)0.45%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair1.1%
Africa
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-5PND2
animal barcodemitochondrial
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type9 records
Wild obs. + sensor9
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO36 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 9
9 georeferenced
Open the mapobservation + sensor9
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility9 records↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics31 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗