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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements1 literature sources4 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS260 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD7 specimens
01Narrative
Aquilonastra burtoni is a species of small sea star from the family Asterinidae from the Red Sea which has colonised the eastern Mediterranean by Lessepsian migration through the Suez Canal, although the Mediterranean populations are clonal reproducing through fissiparous asexual reproduction. It was originally described in 1840 by the English zoologist and philatelist John Edward Gray.
No narrative description available 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 Aquilonastra burtoni has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens7
Marker genes1
Countries1
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus5 specimens
ACGT
▸ drag or hover over the strip to read any position — letter and how much it varies
Violet ticks below the strip = positions where individuals differ; flat = the species' unchanging signature. 85% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 96 variable positions, in barcode order
Each circle is a barcode variant; bigger = more specimens, colour = region. Lines join the most similar variants and the tick marks count the mutations between them — a tight cluster is one “dialect”, a long line a more divergent lineage. Click a circle to list its actual specimens.
Diversity (π)8.8%
Haplotypes3
BINs0
Most divergent pair14.6%
Asia
Closest relatives by DNA barcode
The species whose COI barcode is most similar to this one — a quick “who is this most like”. The percentage is how much the barcode differs; it approximates, but is not, the full evolutionary tree.
★ 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 type260 records
Wild obs. + sensor56
Museum / vouchered201
Other3
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO512 km²
Depth
0–200 m sunlit46
200–1000 m twilight0
1–4 km midnight0
>4 km abyssal0
median 4.8 m · max 67 m · 46 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 accuracy77% within 1 km
≤100 m 10≤1 km 7≤10 km 2>10 km 3
22 georeferenced · 34 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor56
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 accuracy38% within 1 km
≤100 m 2≤1 km 15≤10 km 10>10 km 18
45 georeferenced · 156 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence201
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 institutions5 of 12 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Paris, FR
32
BIUlocation not on record
23
Cambridge, US
21
CASlocation not on record
12
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
11
Washington, US
10
Cantablocation not on record
3
Turkmen Agricultural University named after S.A. Niyazovlocation not on record
3
Auckland, NZ
2
Los Angeles, US
1
Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciêncialocation not on record
1
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
1
12 institutions · 120 of 201 vouchered records shown
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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility145 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System115 records↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics7 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗