Specimen – AMNH The copper pheasant or Soemmerring's pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii) is endemic to Japan. The scientific name commemorates the German scientist Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
⚠ sources differ — AmnioteDB: 907 g · AVONET: 1 082 g · EltonTraits: 1 082 g
Body mass (female)1 300 g
Body mass (male)900 g
Hand-wing index29.8
Kipp's distance63.5 mm
SVL52.5 cm
Secondary length150 mm
Tail length662 mm
Tarsus length58.6 mm
Wing length215 mm
Life cycle & reproduction1
Litter size7
Diet & foraging5
Ground100 %
Invertebrate50 %
Seed50 %
Trophic levelomnivore
Trophic nicheOmnivore
Habitat & environment4
HabitatForest
Migration1.0
Primary lifestyleTerrestrial
Range size174 734 km²
05DNA & barcoding23 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 Syrmaticus soemmerringii has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens23
BINs1
Marker genes11
eDNA detections13
Countries1
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P641 bp consensus13 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. 100% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Diversity (π)0.07%
Haplotypes2
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.16%
Where individuals differ — all 2 variable positions, in barcode order
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.
★COI-5PCOIICOXIIICYTBND1ND2ND3ND4ND4LND5-0ND6
animal barcodemitochondrial
Organelle genome
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
The complete instruction manualSyrmaticus soemmerringii 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.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
Chromosomes2n = 82 n = 41
Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references
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 origin12.7 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 type1 219 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 090
Museum / vouchered128
Other1
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 816 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 accuracy1% within 1 km
≤100 m 1≤1 km 1≤10 km 2>10 km 268
272 georeferenced · 818 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 090
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 accuracy3% within 1 km
≤1 km 3≤10 km 62>10 km 42
107 georeferenced · 21 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence128
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 institutions7 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
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, USAlocation not on record
17
The Natural History Museum, London, UK (BMNH)location not on record
15
The Field Museum, Chicago, USAlocation not on record
10
American Museum of Natural History, New York, USAlocation not on record
9
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, USAlocation not on record
6
MNHAHlocation not on record
6
Akita Prefectural Museumlocation not on record
6
Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (UMMZ), USAlocation not on record
6
Museo Zoologico de La Specola, Florence, Italylocation not on record
4
Iowa City, US
4
Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australialocation not on record
4
Chicago, US
3
Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russialocation not on record
3
Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germanylocation not on record
3
Yale Peabody Museum, USAlocation not on record
3
National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, Netherlandslocation not on record
3
Gifu prefectural Museumlocation not on record
3
Denver, US
2
Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University, Polandlocation not on record
2
Bando, JP
2
Liverpool Museum, UKlocation not on record
2
Bourges, FR
2
California Academy of Sciences, USAlocation not on record
1
Bristol Museums and Art Gallery Service, UKlocation not on record
1
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Italylocation not on record
1
Cambridge, US
1
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germanylocation not on record
1
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, USAlocation not on record
1
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, USAlocation not on record
1
Museum d'histoire naturelle de Bordeaux, Francelocation not on record
1
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Francelocation not on record
1
University Museum of Zoology Cambridge, UKlocation not on record
1
Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, Switzerlandlocation not on record
1
Ann Arbor, US
1
Toyota city nature sanctuarylocation not on record
1
35 institutions · 128 of 128 vouchered records shown
09Environmental DNA13 detections
Where the DNA of Syrmaticus soemmerringii 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 found13
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 13 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
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 median10.3 °C 7.40–17.1
Seasonal swing summer↔winter24.4 °C
Max temp (day)14.1 °C 9.60–19.3
Min temp (night)5.40 °C 3.00–13.3
Precipitation153 mm/mo 52.1–344
Air humidity63.1 % 58.8–65.0
Moisture balance73.2 mm/mo -14.1–263
Vapour deficit490 Pa 425–827
Wind speed2.90 m/s 2.10–3.50
Cloud cover42.4 % 32.1–44.6
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 10 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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