Telescopium telescopium
(Linnaeus, 1758) · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Telescopium telescopium's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 106 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System244 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI58 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics59 specimens↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Telescopium telescopium, commonly known as the telescope snail, is a species of snail in the horn snail family Potamididae found in mangrove habitats in the Indo-Pacific.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Telescopium telescopium (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215140 on 2021-05-24 They are large snails that can grow up to 8 to in length and are easily recognizable by their cone-shaped shell. Telescope snails are edible and are eaten in parts of Southeast Asia. They are known locally as bagongon or bagungon in the Philippines; and rodong or berongan in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology1
Habitat & environment3
Other traits1
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 Telescopium telescopium 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.
The complete instruction manual Telescopium telescopium 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
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).
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
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 solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Telescopium telescopium. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
How it livedPBDB
Record type1 355 records
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 institutions16 of 36 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Sydney, AU | 107 |
| Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record | 47 |
| Philadelphia, US | 26 |
| Cambridge, US | 20 |
| Museums Victorialocation not on record | 17 |
| Natick, US | 12 |
| Western Australian Museumlocation not on record | 8 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 8 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 7 |
| Paris, FR | 6 |
| Washington, US | 6 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 6 |
| CASlocation not on record | 5 |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 4 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 4 |
| Brussels, BE | 4 |
| QVMAGlocation not on record | 4 |
| Denver, US | 3 |
| ELMClocation not on record | 3 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 3 |
| Delaware Museum of Nature and Sciencelocation not on record | 3 |
| Toyama, JP | 2 |
| DOI/NPS, Salem Maritime National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 2 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 2 |
| Auckland, NZ | 2 |
| Champaign, US | 2 |
| Paleontological Research Institutionlocation not on record | 2 |
| Helsinki, FI | 1 |
| Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Department of Fisheries Biology and Genetics, Aquatic Bioresource Research Lablocation not on record | 1 |
| Gujarat Biodiversity Gene Banklocation not on record | 1 |
| Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| Barcelona, ES | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Mutare Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Salzburg, AT | 1 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Telescopium telescopium 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.