Aporrectodea caliginosa
(Savigny, 1826) · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Aporrectodea caliginosa's data was compiled from.
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility11 842 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System112 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI837 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 319 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Aporrectodea caliginosa est une espèce de vers de la famille des Lumbricidae. C'est un ver de terre qui fait partie des endogés, c'est-à-dire qui creusent des galeries horizontales dans le sol.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
No structured trait data for this taxon yet.
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 Aporrectodea caliginosa 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.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
The complete instruction manual Aporrectodea caliginosa 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).
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
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 type11 954 records
Origin
Range
Depth
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.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions13 of 43 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Helsinki, FI | 314 |
| Stockholm, SE | 131 |
| Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record | 125 |
| Senckenberg Museum fuer Naturkunde Goerlitzlocation not on record | 115 |
| PIET INEDESlocation not on record | 102 |
| Sydney, AU | 82 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 35 |
| South Kensington, GB | 27 |
| Swedish University of Agricultural Scienceslocation not on record | 26 |
| Washington, US | 24 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 17 |
| Ekaterinburg, RU | 16 |
| Canadian Museum of Naturelocation not on record | 14 |
| Cambridge, US | 10 |
| Barcelona, ES | 6 |
| DOI/FWS, Kenai National Wildlife Refugelocation not on record | 4 |
| University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 4 |
| Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record | 4 |
| Durango, MX | 4 |
| T, MNHN, BOLDlocation not on record | 4 |
| Edmonton, CA | 3 |
| University of Gothenburglocation not on record | 3 |
| Natick, US | 3 |
| T, BOLDlocation not on record | 2 |
| Universite Montpellier 3location not on record | 2 |
| Hannam Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 2 |
| Tartu, EE | 2 |
| Auckland, NZ | 2 |
| University of Bergen, Zoological Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 2 |
| QVMAGlocation not on record | 2 |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Minnesota, James Ford Bell Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| Universite Paris-Est Creteillocation not on record | 1 |
| Sierra Streams Institutelocation not on record | 1 |
| Universite Montpellier, CEFE Lablocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Rouen, ECODIV Laboratorylocation not on record | 1 |
| T, MNHNlocation not on record | 1 |
| PCHVlocation not on record | 1 |
| Stanford Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Western Australian Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Aporrectodea caliginosa 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.