Ambloplites rupestris
(Rafinesque, 1817) · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Ambloplites rupestris's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility38 926 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI72 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics50 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome ~1.12 Gbp↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Rock bass distribution in the United States Ambloplites rupestris Ambloplites rupestris in a Quebec aquarium The rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris), also known as the rock perch, goggle-eye, red eye, and black perch, is a freshwater fish native to east-central North America. This red eyed creature is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes and can be distinguished from other similar species by the six spines in the anal fin (other sunfish have only three anal fin spines).
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology2
Life cycle & reproduction1
Habitat & environment2
Uses & economy1
Other traits3
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 Ambloplites rupestris has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ 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.
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.
The complete instruction manual Ambloplites rupestris 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
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).
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
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.
Record type38 926 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions17 of 45 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Champaign, US | 1 306 |
| Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM)location not on record | 1 205 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 952 |
| Toronto, CA | 635 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 405 |
| Washington, US | 374 |
| University of Minnesota, James Ford Bell Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 370 |
| North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record | 334 |
| University of Alabamalocation not on record | 275 |
| Chicago, US | 206 |
| University of Texas Biodiversity Collections (UTBC)location not on record | 185 |
| New Haven, US | 182 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 169 |
| Montgomery, US | 167 |
| Cambridge, US | 73 |
| Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Natural History Collectionlocation not on record | 72 |
| APSUlocation not on record | 66 |
| Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 50 |
| Tempe, US | 41 |
| München, DE | 37 |
| Central Michigan University Museum of Cultural and Natural Historylocation not on record | 31 |
| CASlocation not on record | 22 |
| Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record | 19 |
| University of Nebraska State Museumlocation not on record | 19 |
| ISUAlocation not on record | 18 |
| Southeastern Louisiana University, Vertebrate Museumlocation not on record | 17 |
| Royal Ontario Museumlocation not on record | 15 |
| Louisiana State University, Museum of Zoologylocation not on record | 14 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 14 |
| Vancouver, CA | 11 |
| UWFClocation not on record | 8 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 7 |
| University of California San Diegolocation not on record | 6 |
| Los Angeles, US | 5 |
| South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversitylocation not on record | 4 |
| University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrateslocation not on record | 4 |
| Paris, FR | 4 |
| Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Iowa City, US | 2 |
| 1 | |
| Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirolocation not on record | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| FishBaselocation not on record | 1 |
| Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 1 |
| Fort Hays State University, Sternberg Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Ambloplites rupestris 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
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
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.