Aplidium californicum

(Ritter & Forsyth, 1917) · species

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Animalia/Chordata/Ascidiacea/Aplousobranchia/Polyclinidae/Aplidium

At a glance

Occurrence records1 026

Data sources10

Biological traits4

DNA specimens11

eDNA detections4

Sources10 archives

Databases and archives Aplidium californicum's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility852 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System174 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics11 specimens↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

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 & measurements1 literature sources4 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS · NPASS25 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS1 026 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 2 countries4 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD11 specimens

01Narrative

Aplidium californicum is a species of colonial sea squirt, a tunicate in the family Polyclinidae. It is commonly known as sea pork.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Size & morphology1

Body length2 cm

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonesessile

Other traits1

Vulnerability10

03Chemical composition25 compounds

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

Compound class profile5 classes

Simple coumarins9

Furocoumarins4

Bryostatins4

Pyranocoumarins $ Simple coumarins3

Pyranocoumarins1

Documented compounds25 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
(-)-Deltoin	present	NPASS
(R)-YuehgesinC	present	NPASS
2-[(2S)-7-oxo-2,3-dihydrofuro[3,2-g]chromen-2-yl]propan-2-yl (Z)-2-methylbut-2-enoate	present	NPASS
4-[[(2R,3R)-3-[2-[(2S)-3,3-dimethyloxiran-2-yl]ethyl]-3-methyloxiran-2-yl]methoxy]furo[3,2-g]chromen-7-one	present	NPASS
5,7-Dimethoxy-8-(3-methyl-2-oxo-butyl)chromen-2-one	present	NPASS
7-hydroxy-8-[(2R)-2-hydroxy-3-methylbut-3-enyl]chromen-2-one	present	NPASS
8-((2S)-2,3-dihydroxy-3-methylbutyl)-7-methoxychromen-2-one	present	NPASS
8-[(2R)-2-hydroxy-3-methylbut-3-enyl]-5,7-dimethoxychromen-2-one	present	NPASS
8-[(2R)-2-hydroxy-3-methylbut-3-enyl]-7-methoxychromen-2-one	present	NPASS
8-[[(2R)-3,3-dimethyloxiran-2-yl]methyl]-7-[(E)-5-[(2R)-3,3-dimethyloxiran-2-yl]-3-methylpent-2-enoxy]chromen-2-one	present	NPASS

05DNA & barcoding11 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 Aplidium californicum has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens11

BINs2

Marker genes1

eDNA detections4

Countries2

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

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type1 026 records

Wild obs. + sensor615

Museum / vouchered411

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 260 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit68

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 1 m · max 82 m · 68 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 accuracy93% within 1 km

≤100 m 388≤1 km 103≤10 km 25>10 km 10

526 georeferenced · 89 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor615

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 accuracy69% within 1 km

≤100 m 31≤1 km 87≤10 km 48>10 km 6

172 georeferenced · 239 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence411

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 institutions4 of 11 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
CASlocation not on record	90
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	49
Washington, US	40
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	22
Victoria, CA	14
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicolocation not on record	9
Florida Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	6
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoologylocation not on record	5
Los Angeles, US	3
Hakai Institutelocation not on record	1
Edmonton, CA	1

11 institutions · 240 of 411 vouchered records shown · 3 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA4 detections

Where the DNA of Aplidium californicum 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 found4

Studies independent surveys1

Countries2

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

Where its DNA was found

0 of 4 detections have coordinates

Open the map2 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.

Modelled climatemodelled

−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C

Temperature median4.00 °C -0.3–12.3

Seasonal swing summer↔winter10.4 °C

Max temp (day)5.30 °C 1.20–14.3

Min temp (night)3.00 °C -1.80–10.7

Precipitation143 mm/mo 108–173

Air humidity66.2 % 63.7–74.3

Moisture balance90.8 mm/mo 13.1–138

Vapour deficit236 Pa 217–427

Wind speed5.20 m/s 4.30–6.10

Cloud cover65.3 % 45.8–65.6

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 4 detection points · 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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Aplidium californicum

At a glance

Sources10 archives

Size & morphology1

Habitat & environment2

Other traits1

Compound class profile5 classes

Documented compounds25 total

At a glance

Record type1 026 records

Range

Depth

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions4 of 11 geolocated

Signal

Where its DNA was found

How strong is each trace?

Modelled climatemodelled

Record type1 026 records