accessory nidamental gland

habitatmech:GOLD.453b1756ab ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

A reproductive gland which lies in the mantle cavity of a sexually mature female decapodiform cephalopod and contains epithelium-lined tubules whose lumina house a dense extracellular bacterial consortium that is environmentally acquired and discharged into egg jelly. — HabitatMech

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Mollusca > Reproductive system > Accessory nidamental gland (ANG) 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

reproductive gland UBERON:0003937
Reproductive system habitatmech:GOLD.fcc934bd13

Related terms

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CEPH:0000001

Also called

Accessory nidamental gland (ANG) — HabitatMech curation
accessory nidamental glands — HabitatMech curation

Curation

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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-09-10 · codex-gpt-5
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. CEPH:0000001 'accessory nidamental gland' kept as an xref. Variant-match review (#12): the variant route reaches UBERON:0002788 'anterior nuclear group', a region of the THALAMUS, for a mollusc reproductive gland — a match with nothing behind it. UBERON has no nidamental gland term; CEPH:0000001 'accessory nidamental gland' exactly names the organ but is retained only as an inactive, unvendored anatomy xref (#290). Path: Host-associated > Mollusca > Reproductive system > Accessory nidamental gland (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.453b1756ab)
DEFINED 2026-09-10 · codex-gpt-5
Defined as 'accessory nidamental gland' under UBERON:0003937 'reproductive gland'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; no new paid research was commissioned. The report interprets GOLD's Host-associated > Mollusca > Reproductive system > Accessory nidamental gland (ANG) leaf as the dissected cephalopod symbiotic reproductive organ, not the main nidamental gland, egg jelly coat, light organ, or mantle cavity. UBERON:0003937 'reproductive gland' is the tightest vendored genus; ENVO:01000162 'organ' is a true but coarser ENVO precedent for symbiont-housing organs, UBERON:0005398 'female reproductive gland' is tighter but unvendored, and CEPH:0000001 exactly names the organ in an inactive, unvendored ontology. ADD preserves GOLD's source-derived Mollusca reproductive-system parent while adding the anatomy genus.

Provenance

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