Actinostella flosculifera

(Le Sueur, 1817) · species

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Animalia/Cnidaria/Anthozoa/Actiniaria/Actiniidae/Actinostella

At a glance

Occurrence records476

Data sources9

Biological traits2

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections0

Sources9 archives

Databases and archives Actinostella flosculifera's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility402 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System74 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗

NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

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 sources2 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS476 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI≈269 Mbp

01Narrative

Actinostella flosculifera, the collared sand anemone, is a species of sea anemone in the family Actiniidae. It is found semi-immersed in the sediment in shallow water in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonesessile

05DNA & barcoding1 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 Actinostella flosculifera has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

BINs1

Marker genes1

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

06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI

The complete instruction manual Actinostella flosculifera carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.

Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is

Genome size≈269 371 768 bp assembly estimate

Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).

BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb

FUNGUS0.04 Gb

INSECT0.25 Gb

THIS GENOME Actinostella flosculifera0.27 Gb

HUMAN3.2 Gb

WHEAT17 Gb

FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb

Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers

Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.

Assembly levelScaffold

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type476 records

Wild obs. + sensor302

Museum / vouchered174

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO716 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit41

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 1 m · max 17 m · 41 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 accuracy88% within 1 km

≤100 m 118≤1 km 49≤10 km 11>10 km 11

189 georeferenced · 113 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor302

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 1>10 km 8

9 georeferenced · 165 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence174

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 institutions4 of 10 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
FCMMlocation not on record	24
Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación, Campus Sisal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicolocation not on record	21
Washington, US	17
New Haven, US	9
	4
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	2
Gothenburg, SE	1
Florida Atlantic University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Museumlocation not on record	1
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	1
MZLUlocation not on record	1

10 institutions · 81 of 174 vouchered records shown · 60 without an institution code

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