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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements1 literature sources2 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS4 521 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD5 specimens
01Narrative
Alcyonium glomeratum or red sea fingers is a species of soft coral in the family Alcyoniidae. It is found around the southern and western coasts of Britain and Ireland.MarLIN
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 Alcyonium glomeratum has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens5
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries3
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P541 bp consensus3 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. 98% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 11 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)1.4%
Haplotypes3
BIN1
Most divergent pair2.0%
AsiaOther
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
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type4 521 records
Wild obs. + sensor2 490
Museum / vouchered1 946
Other85
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 572 km²
Depth
0–200 m sunlit1 765
200–1000 m twilight8
1–4 km midnight0
>4 km abyssal0
median 22.8 m · max 277 m · 1 773 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 accuracy99% within 1 km
≤100 m 2 062≤1 km 41≤10 km 26
2 129 georeferenced · 361 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor2 490
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 accuracy75% within 1 km
≤100 m 16≤1 km 2≤10 km 6
24 georeferenced · 1 922 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 946
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 institutions3 of 6 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
DASSHlocation not on record
9
PNHSlocation not on record
6
Citadel Hill, GB
2
Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record
2
South Kensington, GB
2
Copenhagen, DK
1
6 institutions · 22 of 1 946 vouchered records shown
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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 434 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System2 087 records↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics5 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗