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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements1 literature sources5 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS1 807 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD7 specimens
Genome at a glanceGoaT1.2 Gbp
01Narrative
Arenigobius frenatus, commonly known as the half-bridled goby, is a fish native to the waters of eastern Australia. It occurs in the tropical and temperate waters of eastern Australia being distributed from Cape Tribulation, Queensland, to Flinders Island, Tasmania, and west along Australia's south coast to Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. It is normally encountered in pairs which live in burrows among seagrass beds or within mangroves in sheltered waterbodies such as bays, estuaries and coastal lagoons, at depths no deeper than 10 m. They feed on benthic invertebrates.
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 Arenigobius frenatus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens7
BINs2
Marker genes1
Countries1
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P652 bp consensus7 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. 95% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 32 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)1.5%
Haplotypes4
BINs2
Most divergent pair4.3%
Oceania
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
06Genome at a glanceGoaT
The complete instruction manualArenigobius frenatus 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
Genome size1 202 940 000 bp
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).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
THIS GENOME Arenigobius frenatus1.2 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 807 records
Wild obs. + sensor657
Museum / vouchered1 147
Other3
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO964 km²
Depth
0–200 m sunlit21
200–1000 m twilight0
1–4 km midnight0
>4 km abyssal0
median 0.5 m · max 7 m · 21 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 accuracy97% within 1 km
≤100 m 50≤1 km 9≤10 km 2
61 georeferenced · 596 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor657
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 accuracy37% within 1 km
≤100 m 41≤1 km 233≤10 km 443>10 km 21
738 georeferenced · 409 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 147
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 9 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
216
Museums Victorialocation not on record
146
Natick, US
20
DOI/NPS, Salem Maritime National Historic Sitelocation not on record
13
Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record
12
Washington, US
3
2
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record
1
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallerylocation not on record
1
9 institutions · 414 of 1 147 vouchered records shown
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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility777 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System1 030 records↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics7 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome ~1.20 Gbp↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗