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 Admete viridula has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens14
BINs5
Marker genes1
eDNA detections6
Countries5
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus8 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. 83% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 109 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)7.3%
Haplotypes4
BINs5
Most divergent pair5.8%
OtherN.America
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-5P
animal barcode
07Deep time3.6–0.01 Ma
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
Fossil range3.6–0.01 Ma Pliocene, Pleistocene
Dated fossil finds13
StatusStill living record runs to the present
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 Admete viridula. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
fossil range (PBDB)each dot = one dated find
How it livedPBDB
Life habitepifaunal
Dietcarnivore
Motilityactively mobile
Visionlimited
Compositionaragonite
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type2 230 records
Wild obs. + sensor741
Museum / vouchered1 192
Fossil55
Other242
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO4 708 km²
Depth
0–200 m sunlit374
200–1000 m twilight232
1–4 km midnight5
>4 km abyssal0
median 146.2 m · max 2 048.2 m · 611 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 accuracy87% within 1 km
≤100 m 193≤1 km 57≤10 km 38
288 georeferenced · 453 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor741
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 accuracy77% within 1 km
≤100 m 65≤1 km 112≤10 km 22>10 km 32
231 georeferenced · 961 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 192
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 institutions19 of 42 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Zoological Museum, Moscow Lomonosov State Universitylocation not on record
127
Norwegian Institute of Marine Researchlocation not on record
103
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
98
Washington, US
88
Bergen, NO
88
Los Angeles, US
85
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record
55
Cambridge, US
52
Stockholm, SE
50
Maurice Lamontagne Institutelocation not on record
34
Tromsø, NO
16
Philadelphia, US
12
Gothenburg, SE
11
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
10
Edmonton, CA
10
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
8
Bergen, NO
7
ArcODlocation not on record
5
Brussels, BE
5
ArCODlocation not on record
4
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
4
Frankfurt am Main
3
Instytut Oceanologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record
3
Universidad Católica del Nortelocation not on record
3
Paris, FR
3
Copenhagen, DK
3
University Museum of Bergen, Natural History Collectionslocation not on record
3
IOPASlocation not on record
3
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
2
MZLUlocation not on record
2
Denver, US
2
Chicago, US
2
Institute of Marine Research, Norwaylocation not on record
1
Goteborg Natural History Museumlocation not on record
1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
BioFokuslocation not on record
1
Seattle, US
1
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
1
Saint John, CA
1
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
1
Champaign, US
1
P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanologylocation not on record
1
42 institutions · 911 of 1 192 vouchered records shown · 93 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA6 detections
Where the DNA of Admete viridula 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
Detections DNA found6
Studies independent surveys1
Countries4
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 6 detections have coordinates
Open the map4 countries0
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median2.00 °C -2.50–6.20
Seasonal swing summer↔winter23.7 °C
Max temp (day)2.70 °C -1.00–8.00
Min temp (night)0.9 °C -5.50–4.70
Precipitation63.2 mm/mo 13.0–110
Air humidity66.8 % 62.0–74.0
Vapour deficit218 Pa 156–345
Cloud cover67.2 % 55.5–73.2
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 6 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 565 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System652 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI6 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics14 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗