Gonatus antarcticus — The Life Data

Animalia/Mollusca/Cephalopoda/Oegopsida/Gonatidae/Gonatus

At a glance

Occurrence records533

Data sources10

Biological traits2

DNA specimens5

eDNA detections1

Sources10 archives

Databases and archives Gonatus antarcticus's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility124 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System409 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics5 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

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 & distributionGBIF · OBIS533 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD5 specimens

01Narrative

Gonatus antarcticus is a squid in the family Gonatidae. The species is known with certainty only from southern Atlantic waters but it may have a circum-Antarctic distribution.Kubodera, T. (2006). Gonatus antarcticus Lönnberg 1898. Tree of Life Web Project.Xavier, J.C. & Rodhouse, P.G. & Trathan, P.N. & Wood, A.G. 1999. A Geographical Information System (GIS) Atlas of cephalopod distribution in the Southern Ocean. Antarctic Science, Published online on May 6, 2004

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonepelagic

05DNA & barcoding5 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 Gonatus antarcticus has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens5

BINs1

Marker genes2

eDNA detections1

Countries2

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 type533 records

Wild obs. + sensor78

Museum / vouchered455

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO628 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit1

200–1000 m twilight56

1–4 km midnight15

>4 km abyssal0

median 811 m · max 2 613 m · 72 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 accuracy80% within 1 km

≤100 m 4≤1 km 4>10 km 2

10 georeferenced · 68 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor78

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 accuracy85% within 1 km

≤100 m 1≤1 km 28≤10 km 5

34 georeferenced · 421 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence455

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 6 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Museums Victorialocation not on record	20
Washington, US	18
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallerylocation not on record	10
Earth Sciences New Zealandlocation not on record	6
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	3
British Antarctic Surveylocation not on record	2

6 institutions · 59 of 455 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Gonatus antarcticus 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 found1

Studies independent surveys1

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

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 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.