Anthoscopus minutus

(Shaw, 1812) · species

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Animalia/Chordata/Aves/Passeriformes/Remizidae/Anthoscopus

At a glance

Occurrence records13 709

Data sources10

Biological traits25

DNA specimens2

eDNA detections2

Sources10 archives

Databases and archives Anthoscopus minutus's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility13 709 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗

NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

IOC World Bird ListIOCbird checklist↗

On this page6 sections

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

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources25 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF13 709 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 1 countries2 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD2 specimens

Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI≈979 Mbp

01Narrative

The Cape penduline tit or southern penduline tit (Anthoscopus minutus) is a species of bird in the family Remizidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savannah, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. At 8 cm in length, it is one of the smallest species of bird found in Africa, along with its cousins the grey penduline tit and the mouse-coloured penduline tit.Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi by Stevenson & Fanshawe. Elsevier Science (2001),

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesEltonTraitsAVONETAmnioteDB

Size & morphology11

Beak depth3.7 mm

Beak length (culmen)8.6 mm

Beak length (nares)6.7 mm

Beak width2.5 mm

Body mass6.6 g

Hand-wing index14.9

Kipp's distance7.4 mm

Secondary length42.1 mm

Tail length34.8 mm

Tarsus length13.4 mm

Wing length49.8 mm

Life cycle & reproduction2

Egg mass0.71 g

Litter size4.55

Diet & foraging8

Canopy40 %

Fruit20 %

Invertebrate60 %

Midhigh20 %

Seed20 %

Trophic levelomnivore

Trophic nicheInvertivore

Understory40 %

Habitat & environment4

HabitatShrubland

Migration1.0

Primary lifestyleInsessorial

Range size1 707 194 km²

05DNA & barcoding2 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 Anthoscopus minutus has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens2

BINs1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections2

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

06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI

The complete instruction manual Anthoscopus minutus 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≈978 848 727 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 Anthoscopus minutus0.98 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

Completeness82.4% BUSCO

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type13 709 records

Wild obs. + sensor13 677

Museum / vouchered32

Origin

Native1

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO16 712 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 accuracy86% within 1 km

≤100 m 155≤1 km 69≤10 km 20>10 km 16

260 georeferenced · 13 417 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor13 677

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 accuracy

no georeferenced coordinates · 32 records without

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence32

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 institutions6 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
Philadelphia, US	17
Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record	4
Washington, US	3
Seattle, US	2
Ann Arbor, US	1
NHMOlocation not on record	1
SNSDlocation not on record	1
Geneva, CH	1
Paris, FR	1

9 institutions · 31 of 32 vouchered records shown · 1 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA2 detections

Where the DNA of Anthoscopus minutus 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 found2

Studies independent surveys1

Countries1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 2 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 median23.9 °C 23.9–23.9

Seasonal swing summer↔winter11.4 °C

Max temp (day)30.7 °C

Min temp (night)15.8 °C

Precipitation42.7 mm/mo

Air humidity43.1 %

Moisture balance-144 mm/mo

Vapour deficit1,685 Pa

Wind speed3.20 m/s

Cloud cover51.3 %

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · 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.

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Anthoscopus minutus

At a glance

Sources10 archives

Size & morphology11

Life cycle & reproduction2

Diet & foraging8

Habitat & environment4

At a glance

Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is

Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers

Record type13 709 records

Origin

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions6 of 9 geolocated

Signal

Where its DNA was found

How strong is each trace?

Modelled climatemodelled

Record type13 709 records