Apareiodon affinis
(Steindachner, 1879) · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Apareiodon affinis's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility786 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI102 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics104 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Apareiodon affinis, the darter characine, is a species of fresh water ray-finned fish native to the Río de la Plata Basin in southern Brazil, Paraguay and northern Argentina.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology2
Habitat & environment2
Uses & economy1
Other traits1
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 Apareiodon affinis 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.
The complete instruction manual Apareiodon affinis 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
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).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
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 type786 records
Range
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 institutions12 of 30 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| UEMlocation not on record | 162 |
| Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulolocation not on record | 83 |
| Londrina, BR | 80 |
| PUC-RSlocation not on record | 77 |
| Stockholm, SE | 42 |
| USP-RPlocation not on record | 29 |
| SNSDlocation not on record | 28 |
| UFMSlocation not on record | 27 |
| MPSlocation not on record | 26 |
| Geneva, CH | 22 |
| UNICAMPlocation not on record | 19 |
| Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirolocation not on record | 18 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 15 |
| Bonn, DE | 13 |
| Chicago, US | 7 |
| Museum of Zoologylocation not on record | 5 |
| Toronto, CA | 3 |
| Montgomery, US | 3 |
| Champaign, US | 3 |
| University of Nebraskalocation not on record | 2 |
| SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung Münchenlocation not on record | 2 |
| CASlocation not on record | 2 |
| INMAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ)location not on record | 1 |
| Museo Provincial de Ciencias Naturales Dr. Angel Gallardolocation not on record | 1 |
| Washington, US | 1 |
| FishBaselocation not on record | 1 |
| Barcelona, ES | 1 |
| Fundacion Miguel Lillolocation not on record | 1 |
| Brussels, BE | 1 |
Where the DNA of Apareiodon affinis 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.