Ariocarpus agavoides

(Castañeda) E.F.Anderson · species

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Cactaceae/Ariocarpus

At a glance

Occurrence records234

Data sources9

Biological traits2

DNA specimens3

eDNA detections3

Sources9 archives

Databases and archives Ariocarpus agavoides's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility234 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics3 specimens↗

NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗

GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

On this page5 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources2 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF234 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 1 countries3 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD · NCBI3 specimens

01Narrative

Ariocarpus agavoides (known commonly as the Tamaulipas living rock cactus) is a species of cactus. It is endemic to Mexico. It grows in dry shrubland in rocky calcareous substrates.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVP

Life cycle & reproduction1

Life formsucculent subshrub

Habitat & environment1

Climatedesert or dry shrubland

05DNA & barcoding3 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 Ariocarpus agavoides has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens3

Marker genes2

GenBank sequences6

eDNA detections3

Countries1

The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species

rbcLMK449149.1 ↗501 bp

ACGT

AAGATTACAAATTGACTTATTATACTCCTGAATATCAACCCCAGGATACCGATATCTTGGCAGCATTCCGAGTAACTCCTCAACCTGGAG …

Ariocarpus agavioides ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit (rbcL) gene, partial cds; chloroplast

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.

★matK4★rbcL2

plant barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type234 records

Wild obs. + sensor227

Museum / vouchered6

Cultivated / captive1

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO20 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy61% within 1 km

≤100 m 138≤10 km 89

227 georeferenced

Open the mapobservation + sensor227

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 accuracy100% within 1 km

≤100 m 2

2 georeferenced · 4 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence6

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

Coordinate accuracy

no georeferenced coordinates · 1 records without

Open the mapnot free-living1

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 institutions3 of 3 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Mexico City, MX	3
Durango, MX	1
Saint Louis, US	1

3 institutions · 5 of 6 vouchered records shown

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

09Environmental DNA3 detections

Where the DNA of Ariocarpus agavoides 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

Detections DNA found3

Studies independent surveys1

Countries1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 3 detections have coordinates

Open the map1 country0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

Modelled climatemodelled

−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C

Temperature median15.7 °C 15.7–15.7

Seasonal swing summer↔winter9.60 °C

Max temp (day)22.0 °C

Min temp (night)9.00 °C

Precipitation34.7 mm/mo

Air humidity50.9 %

Moisture balance-93.3 mm/mo

Vapour deficit884 Pa

Wind speed4.10 m/s

Cloud cover25.5 %

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche

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.

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