Argyroneta aquatica
(Clerck, 1757) · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Argyroneta aquatica's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation17 languages↗
Animal Diversity WebUniv. of Michigan MZspecies account↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility9 064 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI26 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics47 specimens↗
World Spider Trait DBMasaryk University56 traits · 46 refs↗
World Spider CatalogNaturhist. Museum Bernworld catalog↗
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.
The Japanese water spider (Argyroneta aquatica japonica) is a subspecies of the water spider. In Japanese it is called the mizugumo. The Japanese water spider is almost exactly like its European cousin. The only distinction between the two is that the Japanese water spider has larger genitalia. Like its cousin, the Japanese water spider lives under water by constructing diving bells, underwater spheres which contain oxygen, which they live in.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compiled from 46 sources
Morphometry43
Predation4
Ecology6
Biomechanics1
Defence1
Morphology1
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 Argyroneta aquatica 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 Argyroneta aquatica 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.
Record type9 064 records
Origin
Range
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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions14 of 33 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 235 |
| Helsinki, FI | 122 |
| Brussels, BE | 105 |
| NSMKlocation not on record | 24 |
| Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 18 |
| Ekaterinburg, RU | 16 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 15 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 14 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 11 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 10 |
| 6 | |
| Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (IPAE), UB RASlocation not on record | 5 |
| Tartu, EE | 5 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 4 |
| Midt-Troms Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 4 |
| SNSDlocation not on record | 3 |
| Uniwersytet w Białymstokulocation not on record | 3 |
| Albuquerque, US | 3 |
| Senckenberg Museum fuer Naturkunde Goerlitzlocation not on record | 3 |
| Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record | 2 |
| Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record | 2 |
| Tilburg, NL | 2 |
| Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record | 2 |
| TÜ_EMIlocation not on record | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 1 |
| SGAV-and-NHMDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bonn, DE | 1 |
| University of Guelphlocation not on record | 1 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Argyroneta aquatica 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.