The common dragonet (Callionymus lyra) is a species of dragonet which is widely distributed in the eastern North Atlantic where it is common near Europe from Norway and Iceland southwards. It is a demersal species that occurs over sand bottoms. It lives to a maximum age of around seven years. It is caught in bycatch by fisheries and is used in the aquarium trade.
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 Callionymus lyra has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens42
BINs2
Marker genes2
eDNA detections195
Countries9
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P652 bp consensus41 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. 97% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 17 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)1.4%
Haplotypes10
BINs2
Most divergent pair17.8%
EuropeOther
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-5P16S
animal barcoderibosomal
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualCallionymus lyra 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 size≈568 707 486 bp assembly estimate
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 Callionymus lyra0.57 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
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.
Assembly levelScaffold
Completeness93.5% BUSCO
07Deep time~24.6 Ma lineage
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
DNA clock origin24.6 Ma TimeTree
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type216 926 records
Wild obs. + sensor13 749
Museum / vouchered19 354
Other183 823
Origin
Native2
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO78 444 km²
Depth
0–200 m sunlit182 954
200–1000 m twilight109
1–4 km midnight0
>4 km abyssal0
median 26.8 m · max 860 m · 183 063 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 accuracy94% within 1 km
≤100 m 8 414≤1 km 666≤10 km 562>10 km 40
9 682 georeferenced · 4 067 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor13 749
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 accuracy8% within 1 km
≤100 m 304≤1 km 55≤10 km 4 046>10 km 22
4 427 georeferenced · 14 927 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence19 354
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 institutions19 of 56 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO)location not on record
5 844
RWSlocation not on record
2 135
DASSHlocation not on record
264
Frankfurt am Main
132
Ilvolocation not on record
131
ICESlocation not on record
83
730location not on record
82
Paris, FR
67
Stockholm, SE
46
Station Biologique de Roscoff (EDMO:521)location not on record
42
CEFASlocation not on record
39
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
32
South Kensington, GB
29
Copenhagen, DK
27
22
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
19
IPMAlocation not on record
17
Institut Francais pour l'Etude de la Merlocation not on record
14
VUB/UGentlocation not on record
14
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zeelocation not on record
14
NHMOlocation not on record
13
Brussels, BE
11
IZWOlocation not on record
8
486location not on record
8
FishBaselocation not on record
8
Zoologisches Museum Hamburglocation not on record
8
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
8
Cambridge, US
7
Barcelona, ES
7
Helsinki, FI
6
PNHSlocation not on record
6
MZLUlocation not on record
5
Bergen, NO
5
ICM-CSIClocation not on record
4
Tromsø, NO
4
SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung Münchenlocation not on record
4
ICATMARlocation not on record
3
IEO-COMA-CSIClocation not on record
3
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record
3
Chicago, US
3
Washington, US
2
UFESlocation not on record
2
AVGlocation not on record
2
Toronto, CA
2
Los Angeles, US
2
Vancouver, CA
1
CLOlocation not on record
1
Musée Zoologique de la ville de Strasbourglocation not on record
1
Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record
1
University of California San Diegolocation not on record
1
Natural History Museum of the Iberian Peninsula - NatMIP ("Museu de História Natural da Península Ibérica")location not on record
1
Marine Biological Association of the UKlocation not on record
1
Ann Arbor, US
1
Geneva, CH
1
Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgiquelocation not on record
1
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversitylocation not on record
1
56 institutions · 9 198 of 19 354 vouchered records shown · 58 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA195 detections
Where the DNA of Callionymus lyra 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 found195
Studies independent surveys4
Countries9
Verifiable raw sequence linked140
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
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 median9.90 °C 6.80–15.8
Seasonal swing summer↔winter12.5 °C
Max temp (day)11.0 °C 9.20–17.4
Min temp (night)8.70 °C 4.90–14.5
Precipitation98.5 mm/mo 59.3–102
Air humidity64.0 % 62.6–64.7
Vapour deficit437 Pa 402–671
Cloud cover48.7 % 43.3–50.6
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 184 detection points · 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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ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI195 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics42 specimens↗
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