Coryphaena hippurus
Linnaeus, 1758 · speciesAt a glance
Sources15 archives
Databases and archives Coryphaena hippurus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation19 languages↗
Animal Diversity WebUniv. of Michigan MZspecies account↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility129 778 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System109 061 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI754 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics609 specimens↗
FooDBThe Metabolomics Innovation Centrecompounds↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Young fisherman with dolphinfish from Santorini, Greece c. 1600 BCE (Minoan civilization). The mahi-mahi ()Dictionary.com: define Mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide. Also widely called dorado (not to be confused with Salminus brasiliensis, a fresh water fish) and dolphin, it is one of two members of the family Coryphaenidae, the other being the pompano dolphinfish. These fish are most commonly found in the waters around the Gulf of Mexico, Costa Rica, Hawaii and the Indian Ocean.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology2
Life cycle & reproduction3
Habitat & environment3
Uses & economy1
Other traits3
Compounds documented for Coryphaena hippurus across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds46 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| L-Glutamic acid | 3,541 mg/100g | FooDB | |
| L-Aspartic acid | 2,429 mg/100g | FooDB | |
| epsilon-Polylysine | 2,178 mg/100g | FooDB | |
| L-Leucine | 1,928 mg/100g | FooDB | |
| L-Alanine | 1,434 mg/100g | FooDB | |
| Arginine | 1,419 mg/100g | FooDB |
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 Coryphaena hippurus 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.
The complete instruction manual Coryphaena hippurus 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.
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
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.
Record type238 839 records
Origin
Range
Depth
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.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions24 of 72 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Tapachula, MX | 241 |
| Cambridge, US | 218 |
| Washington, US | 193 |
| University of California San Diegolocation not on record | 166 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 143 |
| National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korealocation not on record | 132 |
| Toronto, CA | 85 |
| Sydney, AU | 74 |
| North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record | 58 |
| Kagoshima University Museumlocation not on record | 53 |
| University of Texas Biodiversity Collections (UTBC)location not on record | 52 |
| Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientalelocation not on record | 45 |
| FishBaselocation not on record | 36 |
| Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Instituto Politécnico Nacionallocation not on record | 30 |
| Chicago, US | 30 |
| New Haven, US | 29 |
| Paris, FR | 26 |
| South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversitylocation not on record | 24 |
| Los Angeles, US | 24 |
| CASlocation not on record | 22 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 18 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 16 |
| Vancouver, CA | 14 |
| Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Natural History Collectionlocation not on record | 12 |
| Honolulu, US | 12 |
| Natick, US | 10 |
| Fisheries Research Laboratory, Mie Universitylocation not on record | 10 |
| Zoologisches Museum Hamburglocation not on record | 9 |
| Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras José Benito Vives de Andréis (INVEMAR)location not on record | 9 |
| Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record | 9 |
| Cincinnati, US | 9 |
| The Atlantic reference Centrelocation not on record | 9 |
| Western Australian Museumlocation not on record | 8 |
| University of Alabamalocation not on record | 7 |
| Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record | 6 |
| DOI/NPS, Salem Maritime National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 6 |
| Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciêncialocation not on record | 5 |
| SEAOBISlocation not on record | 5 |
| Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulolocation not on record | 5 |
| No Voucherlocation not on record | 5 |
| Murdoch Universitylocation not on record | 5 |
| University of Nebraskalocation not on record | 4 |
| South Kensington, GB | 4 |
| Stockholm, SE | 3 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 3 |
| 3 | |
| UWFClocation not on record | 3 |
| NSMKlocation not on record | 2 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 2 |
| Southeastern Louisiana University, Vertebrate Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| UNICAMPlocation not on record | 2 |
| Barcelona, ES | 2 |
| Oregon State Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record | 2 |
| Junagadh Agricultural Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| National Natural History Collectionslocation not on record | 2 |
| CSIRO, Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record | 2 |
| IEO-COMA-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| California State University, Long Beachlocation not on record | 1 |
| Auckland, NZ | 1 |
| Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratorylocation not on record | 1 |
| University of California Los Angeleslocation not on record | 1 |
| Nova Scotia Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Zacatecas, MX | 1 |
| University of Victorialocation not on record | 1 |
| Food Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisherieslocation not on record | 1 |
| DASSHlocation not on record | 1 |
| Museums Victorialocation not on record | 1 |
| Geneva, CH | 1 |
| Universidad del Valle (UniValle)location not on record | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Coryphaena hippurus 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.