Konosirus punctatus
(Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Konosirus punctatus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility964 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System624 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI66 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics81 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Konosirus punctatus is a species of fish in the family Clupeidae, the herrings and sardines. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Konosirus. Its common names include dotted gizzard shad, konoshiro gizzard shad, and spotted sardine.Froese, R. and D. Pauly. (Eds.) Common names of Konosirus punctatus. FishBase. 2011. It is native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean, where it occurs along the Asian coastline.Froese, R. and D. Pauly. (Eds.) Konosirus punctatus. FishBase. 2011. This fish is usually up to 25 centimeters long,Species fact sheet: Konosirus punctatus. Fisheries and Aquaculture. FAO. with the maximum recorded length 32 centimeters. It has a somewhat compressed body and a slightly projecting snout. There is a dark spot behind the gills, with several lines of dark dots next to it. This species occurs in the ocean, and it can be found near land in bays. It enters shallow brackish waters to spawn. This is a food fish of some commercial importance, particularly in Asia.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology1
Habitat & environment3
Uses & economy1
Other traits1
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 Konosirus punctatus 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 588 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 institutions10 of 21 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korealocation not on record | 361 |
| NSMKlocation not on record | 139 |
| Kagoshima University Museumlocation not on record | 113 |
| MNHAHlocation not on record | 48 |
| Cincinnati, US | 15 |
| CASlocation not on record | 10 |
| Chiba, JP | 9 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 7 |
| Cambridge, US | 4 |
| Vancouver, CA | 3 |
| Stockholm, SE | 2 |
| Paris, FR | 2 |
| FishBaselocation not on record | 2 |
| Gifu prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Fisheries Research Laboratory, Mie Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Toyama, JP | 1 |
| 1 | |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences, Marine Biodiversity Collection of South China Sealocation not on record | 1 |
| Louisiana State University, Museum of Zoologylocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Konosirus punctatus 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.