Antillogorgia rigida — The Life Data

Animalia/Cnidaria/Anthozoa/Malacalcyonacea/Gorgoniidae/Antillogorgia

At a glance

Occurrence records95

Data sources7

Biological traits4

DNA specimens4

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Antillogorgia rigida's data was compiled from.

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility51 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System44 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics4 specimens↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

On this page5 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

Chemical compositionLOTUS · NPASS28 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS95 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD4 specimens

01Narrative

Antillogorgia rigida is een zachte koralensoort uit de familie van de Gorgoniidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1929 door Bielschowsky.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonesessile

Other traits2

Depth max20 m

Depth min6 m

03Chemical composition28 compounds

Compounds documented for Antillogorgia rigida across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile5 classes

Bisabolane sesquiterpenoids8

Oleanane triterpenoids6

Prenyl quinone meroterpenoids4

Phenazine alkaloids2

Oleanane triterpenoids $ Ursane and Taraxastane triterpenoids1

Documented compounds28 total

Compound	Amount	Source
(-)-alpha-Curcumene	present	LOTUS
(R)-2-(1,5-Dimethyl-4-hexenyl)-5-methyl-1,4-benzenediol	present	LOTUS
(S)-1-methyl-4-(6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl)phenazine-2,3-diol	present	LOTUS
2-methyl-5-[(2R)-6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl]cyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-dione	present	LOTUS
3,3',4'-Tri-O-methylellagic acid	present	NPASS
6,7,13,14-Tetramethoxy-2,9-dioxatetracyclo[6.6.2.04,16.011,15]hexadeca-1(15),4,6,8(16),11,13-hexaene-3,10-dione	present	NPASS
[4-acetyloxy-2-methyl-5-[(2R)-6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl]phenyl] acetate	present	LOTUS
Arjungenin	present	NPASS
Arjunic Acid	present	NPASS
Betulinic Acid	present	NPASS

05DNA & barcoding4 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 Antillogorgia rigida has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens4

BINs1

Marker genes4

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-5P16S16S-ND2ND6-ND3

animal barcoderibosomalmitochondrial

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type95 records

Wild obs. + sensor16

Museum / vouchered79

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO140 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit34

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 18 m · max 33 m · 34 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 accuracy31% within 1 km

≤100 m 4≤10 km 4>10 km 5

13 georeferenced · 3 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor16

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 accuracy100% within 1 km

≤1 km 2

2 georeferenced · 77 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence79

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 institutions1 of 3 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Washington, US	20
Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (INVEMAR)location not on record	3
Alabama Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	1

3 institutions · 24 of 79 vouchered records shown · 15 without an institution code