Aquilonastra cepheus — The Life Data

Animalia/Echinodermata/Asteroidea/Valvatida/Asterinidae/Aquilonastra

At a glance

Occurrence records431

Data sources6

Biological traits4

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections0

Sources6 archives

Databases and archives Aquilonastra cepheus's data was compiled from.

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility197 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System234 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page4 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

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS431 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

01Narrative

Aquilonastra cepheus is een zeester uit de familie Asterinidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1842 gepubliceerd door Johannes Peter Müller & Franz Hermann Troschel.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonereef-associated

Other traits2

Depth max70 m

Depth min0 m

05DNA & barcoding1 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 Aquilonastra cepheus has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

BINs1

Marker genes1

Countries1

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 type431 records

Wild obs. + sensor34

Museum / vouchered397

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO632 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit22

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 2.1 m · max 126.5 m · 22 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 accuracy63% within 1 km

≤100 m 3≤1 km 9≤10 km 1>10 km 6

19 georeferenced · 15 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor34

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 accuracy61% within 1 km

≤100 m 8≤1 km 122≤10 km 78>10 km 4

212 georeferenced · 185 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence397

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 institutions6 of 13 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Western Australian Museumlocation not on record	66
Sydney, AU	60
CASlocation not on record	15
Natick, US	10
Museums Victorialocation not on record	10
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record	7
Washington, US	2
DOI/NPS, Salem Maritime National Historic Sitelocation not on record	2
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	2
Brussels, BE	1
Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record	1
Chicago, US	1
Paris, FR	1

13 institutions · 178 of 397 vouchered records shown · 2 without an institution code