Kingdoms detected
7
Number of ASVs
956
Families detected
147
Species detected
91
Report on site ‘002555’
What is this?
We display every species we detected here, sorted by IUCN Red List status. The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction. DD: Data deficient. LC: Least Concern. VU: Vulnerable. EN: Endangered. CR: Critically endangered.
Click on the image to open the relevant Atlas of Living Australia page.
At this location we found one IUCN Least Concern species and 81 species not assessed by the IUCN.
IUCN Least concern species
Species not assessed by IUCN
Not pictured: Vibrio patho, Alteromonas, Clade Ia patho, Candidatus Puniceispirillum patho, Brevundimonas, Sphingobacterium nematocida, Macrosetella gracilis, Prochlorococcus MIT9313 marinus, Clade Ib patho, Nonlabens, Mesonia mobilis, Lentilitoribacter donghaensis, Canuella perplexa, Psychrobacter maritimus, Vibrio sagamiensis, Pseudomonas pachastrellae, Moheibacter sediminis, Clausocalanus furcatus, Pseudoalteromonas, Algicola bacteriolytica, Vibrio fortis, Marinomonas communis, Thalassotalea agarivorans, Thalassotalea loyana, Vibrio ishigakensis, Pseudoalteromonas patho, Pseudoalteromonas ruthenica, Ruegeria profundi, Halomonas aquamarina, Labrenzia marina, Sinistrostrombidium cupiformum, Alteromonas patho, Calocalanus styliremis, Ruegeria, Paracalanus denudatus, Marinobacterium stanieri, Photobacterium leiognathi, Wukongibacter baidiensis, Terrisporobacter mayombei, Vibrio coralliilyticus, Trichodesmium IMS101 havanum, Mesoflavibacter sabulilitoris, Notoplana australis, Pseudochrobactrum, Vibrio nigripulchritudo, Advenella, Abylopsis eschscholtzii, Sanguibacter, Vibrio diabolicus, Pseudomonas lurida, Persicobacter diffluens, Catinia plana, Roseivirga spongicola, Bermanella marisrubri, Kaistia, Shewanella corallii, Vibrio azureus, Vibrio panuliri, Pseudoalteromonas phenolica, Vibrio azureus, Aquimarina litoralis, Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea, Trichodesmium IMS101 thiebautii, Romboutsia sedimentorum, Sphingobacterium, Photobacterium damselae, Shimia marina, Grimontia, Flammeovirga aprica.
Images have been sourced from Wikimedia Commons.
What is this?
We asked an AI (Claude’s Anthropic 3.7) which species it thinks are the most interesting detected in this site, and why they are interesting. We reproduce the answer below. We ask Claude only for validated species, i.e., species that are known to occur in the area.
Photobacterium damselae: A marine bacterium that causes significant diseases in fish and occasionally serious wound infections in humans. It’s particularly concerning for fish farmers and those handling marine animals.
Vibrio coralliilyticus: A major coral pathogen that causes coral bleaching and tissue loss, particularly as ocean temperatures rise. It’s considered a significant threat to coral reef ecosystems worldwide.
Oikopleura dioica: A small marine invertebrate that plays a crucial role in ocean food webs and carbon cycling. It creates mucus “houses” to filter feed and is important in marine ecosystem functioning.
Trichodesmium species: These are vital nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria that contribute significantly to ocean productivity. They’re visible from space when they form large blooms and are crucial for marine nutrient cycles.
Prochlorococcus marinus: The most abundant photosynthetic organism on Earth, responsible for a significant portion of ocean oxygen production and carbon fixation.
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: An emerging multidrug-resistant pathogen that can cause serious infections in humans, particularly in healthcare settings.
Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea: Produces compounds of interest to pharmaceutical research, including antibiotics and anti-cancer agents.
Liriope tetraphylla: A small jellyfish species that can form large blooms, affecting fisheries and tourist activities in coastal areas.
Vibrio species: Many members of this genus are important pathogens of humans and marine animals, causing diseases like cholera and seafood-associated gastroenteritis.
Halomonas aquamarina: Known for its potential in biotechnology applications, including the production of valuable compounds and environmental cleanup.
What is this?
This is a table listing every species we detected, its DNA identity in percent to our reference database, the sampling depth it was detected at, and how sure we are of the detection.
We compare pieces of DNA sampled from the environment with a reference database. We list the percentage identity of the piece of DNA with the reference database, the higher, the better, up to 100% identity. We then curate species sightings into ‘Validated’, which are species known to occur in the area and have a high DNA percentage identity (more than 97%). ‘Plausible’ species have high BLAST identity but are not known to occur in the area. Unlikely species are not shown in this table.
For each species we list the IUCN Red List status. The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction. DD: Data deficient. LC: Least Concern. VU: Vulnerable. EN: Endangered. CR: Critically endangered.
For each species we also list the percentage of traces (DNA fragments) we could assign to this species. Every species sheds DNA at different rates making it currently hard to link the number of reads to species abundance, but rare species generally have low read counts. We also list the quartile of traces for each species: a species with a quartile of Q4 is in the top 25% of traces for that sample and assay, Q3 is in the top 50% to top 75%, Q2 is in the bottom 25% to 50% of traces, and Q1 is in the lowest 25% of traces for that sample and assay.
What is this?
This section shows different measures of diversity as found in this area.
Map Tiles via Esri — National Geographic, Esri, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, UNEP-WCMC, USGS, NASA, ESA, METI, NRCAN, GEBCO, NOAA, iPC.