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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements1 literature sources2 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF2 044 records
Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI≈1.6 Gbp
01Narrative
The prong-snouted blind snake (Anilios bituberculatus) is a species of non-venomous worm-like burrowing snakes belonging to the Typhlopidae family.McDiarmid R.W., Campbell J.A. & Touré T. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. (series). (volume).ITIS Report. (n.d.). ITIS Report. Retrieved from https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=174339#null on 29 August 2007.Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. (n.d.). Anilios bituberculatus. The Reptile Database. Zoological Museum Hamburg. Retrieved from http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Anilios&species=bituberculatus on 29 July 2018. It is endemic to central southern, continental Australia.
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 Anilios bituberculatus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualAnilios bituberculatus 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
Genome size≈1 642 818 667 bp assembly estimate
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).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
THIS GENOME Anilios bituberculatus1.64 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
Assembly levelScaffold
07Deep time~11.1 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 origin11.1 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 type2 044 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 016
Museum / vouchered1 007
Other21
Origin
Native328
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO4 408 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 accuracy81% within 1 km
≤100 m 592≤1 km 144≤10 km 143>10 km 27
906 georeferenced · 110 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 016
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 accuracy36% within 1 km
≤100 m 79≤1 km 44≤10 km 209>10 km 9
341 georeferenced · 666 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 007
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 9 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
DOI/NPS, Salem Maritime National Historic Sitelocation not on record
409
Sydney, AU
175
Museums Victorialocation not on record
157
NSW Dept of Planning, Industry and Environmentlocation not on record
72
Western Australian Museumlocation not on record
55
Australian National Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record
34
Natick, US
21
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record
13
Cambridge, US
11
9 institutions · 947 of 1 007 vouchered records shown · 60 without an institution code
