The greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili), also known as the allied kingfish, great amberfish, greater yellowtail, jenny lind, Sea donkey, purplish amberjack, reef donkey, rock salmon, sailors choice, yellowtail, and yellow trevally, is a species of predatory ray-finned fish in the family Carangidae, the jacks and pompanos. It is found in temperate, subtropical, and tropical seas around the world. It is a popular quarry species for recreational fisheries and is important in commercial fisheries. It is the largest species in the family Carangidae.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
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 Seriola dumerili has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens154
BINs2
Marker genes13
eDNA detections153
Countries17
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P651 bp consensus137 specimens
ACGT
▸ drag or hover over the strip to read any position — letter and how much it varies
Violet ticks below the strip = positions where individuals differ; flat = the species' unchanging signature. 99% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 6 variable positions, in barcode order
Each circle is a barcode variant; bigger = more specimens, colour = region. Lines join the most similar variants and the tick marks count the mutations between them — a tight cluster is one “dialect”, a long line a more divergent lineage. Click a circle to list its actual specimens.
Diversity (π)0.64%
Haplotypes20
BINs2
Most divergent pair1.4%
AfricaAsiaN.AmericaOther
Closest relatives by DNA barcode
The species whose COI barcode is most similar to this one — a quick “who is this most like”. The percentage is how much the barcode differs; it approximates, but is not, the full evolutionary tree.
★ 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.
▸ Tap any coloured segment — or a gene chip — to see what it is
◖ violet arc = the COI-5P barcode — the ~650 bp read used to ID this species
Pick a coloured segment on the ring — or a gene chip — to read what that gene does.
protein-codingrRNAtRNA
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualSeriola dumerili carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Genome size723 720 000 bp
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
THIS GENOME Seriola dumerili0.72 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
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
DNA clock origin6.39 Ma TimeTree
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.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type7 076 records
Wild obs. + sensor5 595
Museum / vouchered1 289
Other192
Origin
Native98
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO8 508 km²
Depth
0–200 m sunlit1 535
200–1000 m twilight36
1–4 km midnight2
>4 km abyssal0
median 21.9 m · max 2 697.5 m · 1 573 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 accuracy81% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 246≤1 km 479≤10 km 171>10 km 239
2 135 georeferenced · 3 460 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor5 595
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 accuracy27% within 1 km
≤100 m 42≤1 km 44≤10 km 124>10 km 109
319 georeferenced · 970 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 289
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 institutions20 of 48 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
111
National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korealocation not on record
96
Kagoshima University Museumlocation not on record
79
University of Texas Biodiversity Collections (UTBC)location not on record
39
North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record
28
CASlocation not on record
26
Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientalelocation not on record
20
Tapachula, MX
19
Paris, FR
14
Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record
13
Washington, US
12
Universidad del Valle (UniValle)location not on record
12
Sydney, AU
11
Cincinnati, US
9
Cambridge, US
9
Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Natural History Collectionlocation not on record
8
Mutare Museumlocation not on record
7
FishBaselocation not on record
7
Western Australian Museumlocation not on record
6
NSMKlocation not on record
6
Ann Arbor, US
6
DASSHlocation not on record
6
ICM-CSIClocation not on record
6
ICATMARlocation not on record
5
Stockholm, SE
5
Natick, US
5
Chicago, US
5
National Natural History Collectionslocation not on record
4
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversitylocation not on record
4
University of Alabamalocation not on record
4
Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciêncialocation not on record
4
Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record
4
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record
4
New Haven, US
4
Toronto, CA
3
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulolocation not on record
3
Wuzhou, CN
3
SMNHTAUlocation not on record
2
Los Angeles, US
2
Copenhagen, DK
2
Frankfurt am Main
1
UNICAMPlocation not on record
1
1
University of California San Diegolocation not on record
1
Auckland, NZ
1
Fisheries Research Laboratory, Mie Universitylocation not on record
1
Barcelona, ES
1
Vancouver, CA
1
48 institutions · 621 of 1 289 vouchered records shown · 65 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA153 detections
Where the DNA of Seriola dumerili 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 found153
Studies independent surveys1
Countries12
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 153 detections have coordinates
Open the map12 countries0
MarineSandy bottomocean surfaceFood
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.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median22.6 °C 10.4–27.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter7.80 °C
Max temp (day)24.0 °C 15.7–29.5
Min temp (night)20.6 °C 3.20–26.1
Precipitation84.7 mm/mo 5.60–205
Air humidity62.2 % 54.3–66.0
Moisture balance-38.8 mm/mo
Vapour deficit964 Pa 685–1,294
Wind speed2.70 m/s
Cloud cover34.3 % 25.1–62.5
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 87 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
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.
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ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI153 eDNA detections↗
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