Anaspides tasmaniae is a species of fresh water crustacean of the family Anaspididae found in Tasmania. It is also known by the common names "mountain shrimp" or "chris' pseudo-mantis". It has been described as a "living fossil". A. tasmaniae lives in tarns and creeks above 300 metres from sea level, and is found in Lake St Clair and Clarence Lagoon.
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 Anaspides tasmaniae has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens51
BINs2
Marker genes1
eDNA detections50
Countries1
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P603 bp consensus51 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 12 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)1.7%
Haplotypes7
BINs2
Most divergent pair2.8%
OtherOceania
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
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~25 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 origin25 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 type256 records
Wild obs. + sensor179
Museum / vouchered77
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO576 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy96% within 1 km
≤100 m 170≤1 km 1≤10 km 6>10 km 2
179 georeferenced
Open the mapobservation + sensor179
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 accuracy15% within 1 km
≤100 m 2≤1 km 6≤10 km 42>10 km 3
53 georeferenced · 24 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence77
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 institutions5 of 12 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallerylocation not on record
35
Sydney, AU
9
ZSROlocation not on record
7
QVMAGlocation not on record
7
Cambridge, US
6
Brussels, BE
4
Stockholm, SE
3
Museums Victorialocation not on record
2
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections)location not on record
1
Natick, US
1
University of Oslo (UiO)location not on record
1
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
1
12 institutions · 77 of 77 vouchered records shown
09Environmental DNA50 detections
Where the DNA of Anaspides tasmaniae 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 found50
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 50 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
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 median21.9 °C 21.9–21.9
Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.4 °C
Max temp (day)28.5 °C
Min temp (night)15.0 °C
Precipitation15.6 mm/mo
Air humidity43.4 %
Moisture balance-143 mm/mo
Vapour deficit1,624 Pa
Wind speed4.00 m/s
Cloud cover18.1 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 9 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.
