Afrololigo mercatoris — The Life Data

Animalia/Mollusca/Cephalopoda/Myopsida/Loliginidae/Afrololigo

At a glance

Occurrence records953

Data sources9

Biological traits6

DNA specimens2

eDNA detections2

Sources9 archives

Databases and archives Afrololigo mercatoris's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility23 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System930 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

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 sources6 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS953 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries2 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD2 specimens

01Narrative

Afrololigo mercatoris, commonly known as the Guinean thumbstall squid, is a small species of squid in the family Loliginidae from the eastern central Atlantic Ocean. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Afrololigo.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Size & morphology1

Body length3.5 cm

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonedemersal

Uses & economy1

Commercial importanceof potential interest

Other traits2

Depth max50 m

Vulnerability10

05DNA & barcoding2 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 Afrololigo mercatoris has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens2

BINs1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections2

Countries1

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

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type953 records

Wild obs. + sensor849

Museum / vouchered33

Other71

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO3 268 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit433

200–1000 m twilight93

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 145.7 m · max 553.5 m · 526 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 accuracy

no georeferenced coordinates · 849 records without

Open the mapobservation + sensor849

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 3

3 georeferenced · 30 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence33

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

Institution	Specimens
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversitylocation not on record	11
ICM-CSIClocation not on record	6
Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciêncialocation not on record	5
UM-RSMASlocation not on record	1

4 institutions · 23 of 33 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA2 detections

Where the DNA of Afrololigo mercatoris 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 found2

Studies independent surveys1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 2 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 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.

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.