Dragmacidon lunaecharta

(Ridley & Dendy, 1886) · species

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Animalia/Porifera/Demospongiae/Axinellida/Axinellidae/Dragmacidon

At a glance

Occurrence records144

Data sources10

Biological traits0

DNA specimens3

eDNA detections3

Sources10 archives

Databases and archives Dragmacidon lunaecharta's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility128 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System16 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics3 specimens↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page5 sections

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

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Chemical compositionLOTUS · NPASS16 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS144 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries3 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD3 specimens

01Narrative

Dragmacidon lunaecharta, also known as the red ball sponge or red boring sponge, is a species of sea sponge found in the western Atlantic Ocean. It feeds on plankton. These sponges do not attach themselves to rocks or the sea floor but drift in water currents. Its main predators are seaslugs. It has been kept in home aquariums.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

03Chemical composition16 compounds

Compounds documented for Dragmacidon lunaecharta across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile5 classes

Cholestane steroids5

Cholestane steroids $ Stigmastane steroids3

Cholestane steroids $ Ergostane steroids3

Stigmastane steroids3

Ergostane steroids1

Documented compounds16 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
(-)-Clerosterol	present	LOTUS
(22E,24R)-24,26-dimethylcholesta-5,22,25(27)-trien-3beta-ol	present	LOTUS
22-Dehydrocholesterol	present	LOTUS
24-Methylenecholesterol	present	LOTUS
24-Norcholesterol	present	LOTUS
beta-Sitosterol	present	LOTUS
Brassicasterol	present	LOTUS
Campesterol	present	LOTUS
Cholesterol	present	LOTUS
Crinosterol	present	LOTUS

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 Dragmacidon lunaecharta has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens3

Marker genes2

eDNA detections3

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.

★COI-5P18S-5P

animal barcoderibosomal

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type144 records

Wild obs. + sensor75

Museum / vouchered68

Other1

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO192 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit4

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 50 m · max 64 m · 4 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 accuracy70% within 1 km

≤100 m 6≤1 km 8≤10 km 4>10 km 2

20 georeferenced · 55 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor75

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 accuracy67% within 1 km

≤1 km 4≤10 km 1>10 km 1

6 georeferenced · 62 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence68

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 7 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Veracruzana, Región Poza Rica-Tuxpanlocation not on record	36
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	9
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicolocation not on record	1
Cambridge, US	1
New Haven, US	1
Washington, US	1
WoRMS Editorial Boardlocation not on record	1

7 institutions · 50 of 68 vouchered records shown · 3 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA3 detections

Where the DNA of Dragmacidon lunaecharta 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

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

Where its DNA was found

0 of 3 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 countries0

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.

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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