Americhiton zebra — The Life Data

Animalia/Mollusca/Polyplacophora/Chitonida/Acanthochitonidae/Americhiton

At a glance

Occurrence records85

Data sources4

Biological traits4

DNA specimens3

eDNA detections0

Sources4 archives

Databases and archives Americhiton zebra's data was compiled from.

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility41 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System44 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics3 specimens↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources4 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS85 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD3 specimens

01Narrative

Acanthochitona zebra is een keverslakkensoort uit de familie van de Acanthochitonidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1988 door Lyons.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonebenthic

Other traits2

Depth max24 m

Depth min1 m

05DNA & barcoding3 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 Americhiton zebra has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens3

BINs2

Marker genes1

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 type85 records

Wild obs. + sensor22

Museum / vouchered63

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO188 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit26

200–1000 m twilight1

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 7 m · max 500 m · 27 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 10≤1 km 2>10 km 3

15 georeferenced · 7 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor22

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 accuracy40% within 1 km

≤1 km 2>10 km 3

5 georeferenced · 58 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence63

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 4 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Philadelphia, US	17
Cambridge, US	2
Denver, US	1
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Countylocation not on record	1

4 institutions · 21 of 63 vouchered records shown · 2 without an institution code