Antipathes dichotoma

Pallas, 1766 · species

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Animalia/Cnidaria/Anthozoa/Antipatharia/Antipathidae/Antipathes

At a glance

Occurrence records555

Data sources8

Biological traits5

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections1

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Antipathes dichotoma's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility177 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System378 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page5 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources5 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS13 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS555 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries1 detections

01Narrative

Antipathes dichotoma is a species of colonial coral in the order Antipatharia, the black corals, so named because their calcareous skeletons are black. It was first described by the German zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas in 1766, from a single specimen he received from near Marseilles in the Mediterranean Sea.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonesessile

Uses & economy1

Commercial importancecommercial

Other traits2

Depth max120 m

Depth min18 m

03Chemical composition13 compounds

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

Compound class profile5 classes

Purine alkaloids4

Cholestane steroids3

Ceramides1

pteridine alkaloids1

Carbazole alkaloids1

Documented compounds13 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
(1S,2R,5R,6R,9R,10R,13S,15S)-5-[(E,4S)-4,5-dimethylhex-2-enyl]-6,10-dimethyl-16,17-dioxapentacyclo[13.2.2.01,9.02,6.010,15]nonadec-18-en-13-ol	present	LOTUS
(1S,3R,7S,8S,9S,10R,13R,14S,17R)-17-[(E,2R,5R)-5,6-dimethylhept-3-en-2-yl]-10,13-dimethyl-2,3,4,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,17-dodecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthrene-1,3,7-triol	present	LOTUS
(22E,24S)-5alpha,8alpha-epidioxy-24-methylcholesta-6,9,22-trien-3beta-ol	present	LOTUS
3H-Cyclohepta[1,2-d:4,5-d']diimidazole-2,6-diamine, N6,N6,3,4-tetramethyl-	present	LOTUS
3H-pseudozoanthoxanthin	present	LOTUS
4-N,4-N,9,13-tetramethyl-3,5,11,13-tetrazatricyclo[8.3.0.02,6]trideca-1,3,5,7,9,11-hexaene-4,12-diamine	present	LOTUS
7Alpha-Hydroxycholesterol	present	LOTUS
Antipathine A	present	LOTUS
N-[(2S,3S,4E,8E)-1,3-dihydroxyicosa-4,8-dien-2-yl]tetradecanamide	present	LOTUS
Paragracine	present	LOTUS

05DNA & barcoding1 eDNA hits

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 Antipathes dichotoma has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

eDNA detections1

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type555 records

Wild obs. + sensor242

Museum / vouchered173

Other140

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO312 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit13

200–1000 m twilight12

1–4 km midnight1

>4 km abyssal0

median 204 m · max 1 410 m · 26 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 accuracy73% within 1 km

≤100 m 11≤10 km 1>10 km 3

15 georeferenced · 227 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor242

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 accuracy83% within 1 km

≤100 m 1≤1 km 4>10 km 1

6 georeferenced · 167 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence173

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 10 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
EDMO:1054 (IFREMER Head Office)location not on record	130
Washington, US	5
Cambridge, US	3
ICESlocation not on record	2
Honolulu, US	2
Frankfurt am Main	2
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	1
Paris, FR	1
Stockholm, SE	1
EDMO:2110 (Oceana)location not on record	1

10 institutions · 148 of 173 vouchered records shown · 5 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Antipathes dichotoma 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 found1

Studies independent surveys1

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

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 countries0

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.

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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