Howella brodiei
Ogilby, 1899 · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Howella brodiei's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility581 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System590 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics16 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
The pelagic basslet, Howella brodiei, is an oceanic basslet native to the Indo-Pacific, where it occurs at depths from 100 to.Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) This species is an openwater fish, staying deeper (below 305 m) during the day and moving to shallower waters. This species can reach 7.6 cm in TL.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology1
Habitat & environment2
Other traits3
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 Howella brodiei 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.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
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 type1 171 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.
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 33 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Cambridge, US | 140 |
| FishBaselocation not on record | 50 |
| Los Angeles, US | 36 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 32 |
| Zoologisches Museum Hamburglocation not on record | 32 |
| University of California San Diegolocation not on record | 18 |
| Tapachula, MX | 18 |
| Sydney, AU | 18 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 18 |
| Museums Victorialocation not on record | 16 |
| Bergen, NO | 14 |
| Washington, US | 11 |
| UWFClocation not on record | 10 |
| The Atlantic reference Centrelocation not on record | 10 |
| Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record | 6 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 5 |
| New Haven, US | 5 |
| Paris, FR | 5 |
| North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record | 4 |
| 50location not on record | 4 |
| Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record | 4 |
| University of Texas Biodiversity Collections (UTBC)location not on record | 2 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 2 |
| SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung Münchenlocation not on record | 2 |
| Sherkin Island Marine Stationlocation not on record | 2 |
| University Museum of Bergen, Natural History Collectionslocation not on record | 1 |
| 1 | |
| Atlantic Reference Centrelocation not on record | 1 |
| CASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Natick, US | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Salem Maritime National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 1 |
| Mexico City, MX | 1 |
| Murdoch Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Howella brodiei 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.