Madoqua saltiana — The Life Data

Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/Artiodactyla/Bovidae/Madoqua

At a glance

Occurrence records162

Data sources10

Biological traits0

DNA specimens12

eDNA detections2

Sources10 archives

Databases and archives Madoqua saltiana's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation14 languages↗

Animal Diversity WebUniv. of Michigan MZspecies account↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility162 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics12 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeADW · Wikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF162 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries2 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD12 specimens

01Narrative

Salt's dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana) is a small antelope found in semidesert, bushland, and thickets in the Horn of Africa, but marginally also in northern Kenya and eastern Sudan. It is named after Henry Salt, who discovered it in Abyssinia in the early 19th century.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding12 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 Madoqua saltiana has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens12

BINs1

Marker genes11

eDNA detections2

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.

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animal barcodemitochondrial

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type162 records

Wild obs. + sensor146

Museum / vouchered16

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO332 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy81% within 1 km

≤100 m 76≤1 km 20≤10 km 16>10 km 6

118 georeferenced · 28 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor146

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 accuracy0% within 1 km

≤10 km 3>10 km 5

8 georeferenced · 8 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence16

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 institutions4 of 4 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	7
Bonn, DE	4
Saint John, CA	4
Geneva, CH	1

4 institutions · 16 of 16 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA2 detections

Where the DNA of Madoqua saltiana 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 found2

Studies independent surveys1

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

Where its DNA was found

0 of 2 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.