Anodontostoma chacunda
(Hamilton, 1822) · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Anodontostoma chacunda's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility926 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System1 764 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI49 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics72 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
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.
Anodontostoma chacunda or Chacunda gizzard shad is a small species of gizzard shad found in both fresh and marine waters.Anodontostoma chacunda in Fishes of Australia, accessed 20 Feb 2017, http://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/2050 The fish is from the family Clupeidae.Whitehead, P.J.P., 1985. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 7. Clupeoid fishes of the world (suborder Clupeioidei). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, shads, anchovies and wolf-herrings. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(7/1):1-303. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 188)
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology1
Habitat & environment4
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 Anodontostoma chacunda 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.
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 type2 690 records
Origin
Range
Depth
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 institutions13 of 34 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| DEWlocation not on record | 54 |
| Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record | 34 |
| Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record | 33 |
| CASlocation not on record | 32 |
| Washington, US | 14 |
| Sydney, AU | 12 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 11 |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences, Marine Biodiversity Collection of South China Sealocation not on record | 10 |
| Chicago, US | 10 |
| Los Angeles, US | 10 |
| University of Minnesota, James Ford Bell Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 9 |
| Curtin Universitylocation not on record | 9 |
| Vancouver, CA | 7 |
| Cambridge, US | 6 |
| Western Australian Museumlocation not on record | 6 |
| Natick, US | 5 |
| Paris, FR | 5 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 4 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 4 |
| Kagoshima University Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 3 |
| SEAOBISlocation not on record | 3 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 3 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| Louisiana State University, Museum of Zoologylocation not on record | 2 |
| UWFClocation not on record | 2 |
| North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record | 1 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Salem Maritime National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 1 |
| Fisheries Research Laboratory, Mie Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Department of Fisheries Biology and Genetics, Aquatic Bioresource Research Lablocation not on record | 1 |
| CSIRO, Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Mutare Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Anodontostoma chacunda 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.