Aluterus scriptus, commonly known as scrawled filefish, broomtail filefish or scribbled leatherjacket, is a marine fish belonging to the family Monacanthidae.
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 Aluterus scriptus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens40
BINs1
Marker genes11
eDNA detections42
Countries14
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P652 bp consensus28 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. 99% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 6 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)0.35%
Haplotypes7
BIN1
Most divergent pair1.1%
AsiaN.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-5PCOIICOXIIICYTBND1ND2ND3ND4ND4LND5-0ND6
animal barcodemitochondrial
Organelle genome
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
▸ Tap any coloured segment — or a gene chip — to see what it is
◖ violet arc = the COI-5P barcode — the ~650 bp read used to ID this species
Pick a coloured segment on the ring — or a gene chip — to read what that gene does.
protein-codingrRNAtRNA
07Deep time~21.9 Ma lineage
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
DNA clock origin21.9 Ma TimeTree
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 orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type10 682 records
Wild obs. + sensor9 475
Museum / vouchered1 043
Cultivated / captive2
Other162
Origin
Native25
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO11 676 km²
Depth
0–200 m sunlit2 512
200–1000 m twilight1
1–4 km midnight0
>4 km abyssal0
median 12.9 m · max 380 m · 2 513 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 accuracy80% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 675≤1 km 1 088≤10 km 399>10 km 304
3 466 georeferenced · 6 009 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor9 475
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 accuracy38% within 1 km
≤100 m 48≤1 km 43≤10 km 62>10 km 89
242 georeferenced · 801 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 043
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km
≤1 km 2
2 georeferenced
Open the mapnot free-living2
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 institutions20 of 56 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
108
Kagoshima University Museumlocation not on record
79
Washington, US
35
Cambridge, US
32
North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record
30
University of California San Diegolocation not on record
26
Paris, FR
24
Sydney, AU
17
FishBaselocation not on record
15
Chicago, US
13
University of Texas Biodiversity Collections (UTBC)location not on record
11
Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record
10
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversitylocation not on record
9
Morelia, MX
9
Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Instituto Politécnico Nacionallocation not on record
8
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record
8
Fisheries Research Laboratory, Mie Universitylocation not on record
8
New Haven, US
7
Vancouver, CA
6
Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Natural History Collectionlocation not on record
6
Toronto, CA
6
Natick, US
5
Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record
4
Louisiana State University, Museum of Zoologylocation not on record
4
Frankfurt am Main
4
Western Australian Museumlocation not on record
4
University of Alabamalocation not on record
3
INMAlocation not on record
3
SEAOBISlocation not on record
3
Universidad del Marlocation not on record
3
Ciudad de México, MX
3
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulolocation not on record
3
Ann Arbor, US
2
Museums Victorialocation not on record
2
CASlocation not on record
2
Geneva, CH
2
Cincinnati, US
2
Universidad del Valle (UniValle)location not on record
2
Tapachula, MX
2
University of Nebraskalocation not on record
2
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record
1
Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirolocation not on record
1
Stockholm, SE
1
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversitylocation not on record
1
Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Veracruzana, Región Poza Rica-Tuxpanlocation not on record
1
Nova Scotia Museumlocation not on record
1
University of Minnesota, James Ford Bell Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
1
IEO-COMA-CSIClocation not on record
1
UNICAMPlocation not on record
1
Mutare Museumlocation not on record
1
Wuzhou, CN
1
Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratorylocation not on record
1
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Sonora Nortelocation not on record
1
Honolulu, US
1
National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korealocation not on record
1
Copenhagen, DK
1
56 institutions · 538 of 1 043 vouchered records shown · 13 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA42 detections
Where the DNA of Aluterus scriptus 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 found42
Studies independent surveys1
Countries12
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 42 detections have coordinates
Open the map12 countries0
Marine
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 median25.9 °C 20.6–27.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter2.00 °C
Max temp (day)27.2 °C 24.6–29.1
Min temp (night)24.5 °C 17.4–26.2
Precipitation144 mm/mo 36.1–253
Air humidity63.6 % 59.4–68.9
Moisture balance12.7 mm/mo
Vapour deficit1,222 Pa 876–1,327
Wind speed4.80 m/s
Cloud cover31.4 % 18.6–58.7
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 21 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.
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