Ercolania kencolesi — The Life Data

Animalia/Mollusca/Gastropoda/Limapontiidae/Ercolania

At a glance

Occurrence records33

Data sources7

Biological traits2

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Ercolania kencolesi's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility24 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System9 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page4 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 & distributionGBIF · OBIS33 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

01Narrative

Ercolania kencolesi is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Limapontiidae. This sea slug lives on the alga Boergesenia forbesii and also within its tubes.Ercolania kencolesi Grzymbowski, Stemmer & Wagele, 2007. Sea Slug Forum, accessed 10 February 2010. It also feed on this alga.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonebenthic

05DNA & barcoding1 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 Ercolania kencolesi has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

BINs1

Marker genes1

Countries1

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-5P

animal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type33 records

Wild obs. + sensor25

Museum / vouchered8

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO44 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit5

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 1.1 m · max 3 m · 5 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 accuracy78% within 1 km

≤100 m 15≤1 km 3≤10 km 2>10 km 3

23 georeferenced · 2 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor25

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

≤1 km 6

6 georeferenced · 2 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence8

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 institutions1 of 2 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Sydney, AU	3
CASlocation not on record	1

2 institutions · 4 of 8 vouchered records shown