Holothuria impatiens
(Forsskål, 1775) · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Holothuria impatiens's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 612 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI41 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics53 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Holothuria (Thymiosycia) impatiens, commonly known as the impatient sea cucumber or bottleneck sea cucumber, is a species of sea cucumber in the genus Holothuria, subgenus Thymiosycia.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology1
Habitat & environment2
Other traits2
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 Holothuria impatiens 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.
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 periods (Jurassic, Cretaceous…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. The dashed rules marked ✦ are the five great mass extinctions. 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 type1 612 records
Range
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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions13 of 40 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 279 |
| Universidad del Marlocation not on record | 204 |
| Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicolocation not on record | 168 |
| Washington, US | 129 |
| Cambridge, US | 99 |
| Sydney, AU | 77 |
| Los Angeles, US | 46 |
| Western Australian Museumlocation not on record | 39 |
| Brussels, BE | 38 |
| CASlocation not on record | 31 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 27 |
| Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record | 23 |
| Natick, US | 16 |
| University of Floridalocation not on record | 15 |
| Museums Victorialocation not on record | 15 |
| AUTHlocation not on record | 13 |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 9 |
| Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Surlocation not on record | 8 |
| Paris, FR | 5 |
| UM-RSMASlocation not on record | 5 |
| Royal Museum for Central Africalocation not on record | 5 |
| Laboratorio de Ecosistemas Marinos y Acuicultura, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad de Guadalajaralocation not on record | 5 |
| Universidad del Valle (UniValle)location not on record | 5 |
| Cantablocation not on record | 3 |
| Hellenic Centre of Marine Research; Institute for Oceanographylocation not on record | 2 |
| Universidad El Bosque (El Bosque)location not on record | 2 |
| Earth Sciences New Zealandlocation not on record | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| Honolulu, US | 2 |
| University of California Museum of Paleontologylocation not on record | 1 |
| Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación, Campus Sisal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicolocation not on record | 1 |
| Auckland, NZ | 1 |
| Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Australian Institute of Marine Sciencelocation not on record | 1 |
| FCMMlocation not on record | 1 |
| Puerto Ayora, EC | 1 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| Negros Oriental State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Holothuria impatiens 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.