Plicifusus kroyeri — The Life Data

Animalia/Mollusca/Gastropoda/Neogastropoda/Buccinidae/Plicifusus

At a glance

Occurrence records936

Data sources6

Biological traits2

DNA specimens4

eDNA detections0

Sources6 archives

Databases and archives Plicifusus kroyeri's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility563 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System373 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics4 specimens↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page4 sections

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

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources2 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS936 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD4 specimens

01Narrative

Plicifusus kroeyeri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonebenthic

05DNA & barcoding4 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 Plicifusus kroyeri has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens4

BINs1

Marker genes1

Countries1

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-5P

animal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type936 records

Wild obs. + sensor707

Museum / vouchered225

Fossil2

Other2

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 388 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit360

200–1000 m twilight5

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 45.5 m · max 657 m · 365 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 accuracy100% within 1 km

≤100 m 616≤1 km 29≤10 km 1

646 georeferenced · 61 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor707

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 26>10 km 3

29 georeferenced · 196 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence225

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 institutions8 of 17 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Los Angeles, US	84
Edmonton, CA	29
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record	28
Seattle, US	14
CASlocation not on record	12
Maurice Lamontagne Institutelocation not on record	7
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	6
Tromsø, NO	4
Philadelphia, US	4
Gothenburg, SE	2
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	2
Denver, US	2
Cambridge, US	2
Norwegian Institute of Marine Researchlocation not on record	2
Institute of Marine Research, Norwaylocation not on record	2
P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanologylocation not on record	1
Toyohashi Museum Of Natural Historylocation not on record	1

17 institutions · 202 of 225 vouchered records shown