Aplysia est un genre de mollusques gastéropodes à corps nu, répandu dans toutes les mers du globe dont les espèces sont souvent appelées aplysie, et de manière plus générale lièvre de mer ou encore lièvre marin.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Aplysia across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
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 Aplysia has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens72
BINs11
Marker genes4
eDNA detections69
Countries8
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-5P16S18S-5PH3
animal barcoderibosomalmarker
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 973 records
Wild obs. + sensor781
Museum / vouchered1 165
Other27
Origin
Native3
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO4 100 km²
Depth
0–200 m sunlit335
200–1000 m twilight4
1–4 km midnight1
>4 km abyssal0
median 7.8 m · max 1 253 m · 340 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 accuracy94% within 1 km
≤100 m 444≤1 km 59≤10 km 28>10 km 5
536 georeferenced · 245 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor781
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 accuracy71% within 1 km
≤100 m 151≤1 km 182≤10 km 84>10 km 52
469 georeferenced · 696 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 165
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 institutions18 of 49 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Sydney, AU
172
CASlocation not on record
82
Western Australian Museumlocation not on record
81
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
69
Cambridge, US
42
Philadelphia, US
41
Washington, US
30
Museums Victorialocation not on record
29
PUC-RSlocation not on record
27
University of Aucklandlocation not on record
17
Toyama, JP
16
Auckland, NZ
14
UNICAMPlocation not on record
14
Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirolocation not on record
12
Universidad de Costa Ricalocation not on record
11
Los Angeles, US
11
University of Floridalocation not on record
10
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institutelocation not on record
10
Stockholm, SE
9
Paris, FR
8
Natick, US
7
DASSHlocation not on record
7
New Haven, US
6
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record
6
Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciêncialocation not on record
6
Iziko Museums of South Africalocation not on record
5
Helsinki, FI
5
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallerylocation not on record
5
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
5
National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record
4
Puerto Ayora, EC
4
Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record
3
ELMClocation not on record
2
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicolocation not on record
2
Brussels, BE
2
Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
2
Earth Sciences New Zealandlocation not on record
2
Institut Francais pour l'Etude de la Merlocation not on record
1
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Countylocation not on record
1
Universidad El Bosque (El Bosque)location not on record
1
Toronto, CA
1
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
1
Chicago, US
1
Universidad Autonoma de Madridlocation not on record
1
Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Ltd. The National Institute of Oceanographylocation not on record
1
Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación, Campus Sisal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicolocation not on record
1
Victoria, CA
1
Gothenburg, SE
1
University of Barcelona, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Scienceslocation not on record
1
49 institutions · 790 of 1 165 vouchered records shown · 51 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA69 detections
Where the DNA of Aplysia 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 found69
Studies independent surveys4
Countries8
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 69 detections have coordinates
Open the map8 countries0
pier pilings, ca. 175 m from shoreCoastal: Rocky shore/beachMarine area, shallow depthAtlantic Ocean
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 16.0–26.6
Seasonal swing summer↔winter4.30 °C
Max temp (day)24.8 °C 16.8–28.2
Min temp (night)22.7 °C 14.8–25.9
Precipitation67.4 mm/mo 5.40–154
Air humidity60.3 % 57.0–65.8
Vapour deficit1,044 Pa 740–1,337
Cloud cover27.8 % 12.2–36.9
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 48 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.
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 387 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System586 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI69 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics72 specimens↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗