Acteon tornatilis
(Linnaeus, 1758) · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Acteon tornatilis's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility6 315 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System3 600 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI11 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics13 specimens↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Acteon tornatilis, common name the "lathe acteon", is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a predatory marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.Gofas, S. (2014). Acteon tornatilis (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138691 on 2014-12-12
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Habitat & environment2
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 Acteon tornatilis 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.
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 solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Acteon tornatilis. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
How it livedPBDB
Record type9 917 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 institutions18 of 55 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| CEFASlocation not on record | 290 |
| Stockholm, SE | 264 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 92 |
| Institut Francais pour l'Etude de la Merlocation not on record | 79 |
| Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Ltd. The National Institute of Oceanographylocation not on record | 69 |
| Gothenburg, SE | 58 |
| 730location not on record | 56 |
| RWSlocation not on record | 46 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 40 |
| Cambridge, US | 34 |
| Laboratoire d'Océanographie Biologique, Universite de Bordeaxlocation not on record | 33 |
| Bergen, NO | 32 |
| 486location not on record | 28 |
| DASSHlocation not on record | 28 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 23 |
| AUTHlocation not on record | 14 |
| Station Biologique de Roscoff (EDMO:521)location not on record | 10 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 9 |
| Barcelona, ES | 8 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 7 |
| PNHSlocation not on record | 7 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 7 |
| Biomorlocation not on record | 5 |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 5 |
| Tromsø, NO | 5 |
| Paris, FR | 5 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 4 |
| Brussels, BE | 4 |
| Philadelphia, US | 4 |
| SNSDlocation not on record | 3 |
| MHN-UPlocation not on record | 3 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 3 |
| Padua universtiy?location not on record | 3 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 3 |
| Champaign, US | 2 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 2 |
| Toronto, CA | 2 |
| Bergen, NO | 2 |
| Helsinki, FI | 1 |
| IEO-COMA-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| Eco laboratory geochemistry Benthic Environments UMR 8222 (4503) Phaxas Expertise Of Marine Fauna (4507)location not on record | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Hellenic Centre of Marine Research; Institute for Oceanographylocation not on record | 1 |
| Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciêncialocation not on record | 1 |
| Eco laboratory geochemistry Benthic Environments UMR 8222 (4503)location not on record | 1 |
| Goteborg Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| South Kensington, GB | 1 |
| Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record | 1 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
| Laboratoria di biologia marina di Triestelocation not on record | 1 |
| Deutsches Zentrum fuer Marine Biodiversitaetsforschunglocation not on record | 1 |
| Salzburg, AT | 1 |
| Eco laboratory geochemistry Benthic Environments UMR 8222 (4503) Université de Liège Underwater research and oceanographic station (4501)location not on record | 1 |
| CSIC-CEAB Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes (1393)location not on record | 1 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Acteon tornatilis 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.