Peristernia forskalii — The Life Data

Animalia/Mollusca/Gastropoda/Neogastropoda/Fasciolariidae/Peristernia

At a glance

Occurrence records121

Data sources9

Biological traits0

DNA specimens3

eDNA detections1

Sources9 archives

Databases and archives Peristernia forskalii's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility74 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System47 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics3 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

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.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS121 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD3 specimens

01Narrative

Peristernia forskalii, common name the Forsskal's whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding3 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 Peristernia forskalii has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens3

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-3P

animal barcoderibosomal

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type121 records

Wild obs. + sensor45

Museum / vouchered75

Other1

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO332 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit10

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 50 m · max 50 m · 10 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 accuracy44% within 1 km

≤100 m 7≤10 km 2>10 km 7

16 georeferenced · 29 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor45

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 accuracy15% within 1 km

≤100 m 1≤1 km 2≤10 km 4>10 km 13

20 georeferenced · 55 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence75

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 institutions5 of 10 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Paris, FR	28
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record	5
Los Angeles, US	4
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	3
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record	3
Brussels, BE	3
Frankfurt am Main	3
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	2
Denver, US	2
KwaZulu-Natal Museumlocation not on record	1

10 institutions · 54 of 75 vouchered records shown · 1 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Peristernia forskalii 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.