Sphoeroides lobatus
(Steindachner, 1870) · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Sphoeroides lobatus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility647 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System189 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics13 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
The longnose puffer (Sphoeroides lobatus) is a species in the family Tetraodontidae, or pufferfishes. It occurs in shallow coastal waters of the Eastern Pacific from California to Chile, including the Galapagos Islands.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology1
Habitat & environment3
Uses & economy1
Other traits3
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 Sphoeroides lobatus 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.
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 type836 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 institutions14 of 35 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| University of California San Diegolocation not on record | 85 |
| Ciudad de México, MX | 53 |
| Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Instituto Politécnico Nacionallocation not on record | 44 |
| Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicolocation not on record | 24 |
| Los Angeles, US | 23 |
| FishBaselocation not on record | 14 |
| CASlocation not on record | 12 |
| Instituto Oceanográfico del Pacífico, Secretaría de Marinalocation not on record | 11 |
| Morelia, MX | 11 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 8 |
| ICM-CSIClocation not on record | 5 |
| Washington, US | 5 |
| Vancouver, CA | 4 |
| Chicago, US | 3 |
| Mexico City, MX | 3 |
| Centro Regional de Investigación Acuícola y Pesquera, Bahía de Banderas, Instituto Nacional de Pescalocation not on record | 3 |
| University of Nebraskalocation not on record | 3 |
| Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Sonora Nortelocation not on record | 3 |
| Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste S. C.location not on record | 2 |
| Laboratorio de Ecosistemas Marinos y Acuicultura, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad de Guadalajaralocation not on record | 2 |
| Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja Californialocation not on record | 2 |
| New Haven, US | 2 |
| Universidad del Valle (UniValle)location not on record | 2 |
| San Francisco, US | 1 |
| Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Natural History Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Tapachula, MX | 1 |
| Universidad del Marlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ)location not on record | 1 |
| Zacatecas, MX | 1 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| Louisiana State University, Museum of Zoologylocation not on record | 1 |
| Research Collection of Benjamin Victorlocation not on record | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Sphoeroides lobatus 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.