HabitatMech

adrenal gland

BTO:0000047 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

Either of a pair of complex endocrine organs near the anterior medial border of the kidney consisting of a mesodermal cortex that produces glucocorticoid, mineralocorticoid, and androgenic hormones and an ectodermal medulla that produces epinephrine and norepinephrine. — BTO

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 > Mammals: Human > Endocrine system > Endocrine gland > Adrenal glands	—
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals > Endocrine system > Endocrine gland > Adrenal glands	—
PREGO	adrenal gland	2	TAXON

Broader habitats

• endocrine gland BTO:0001488
• viscus BTO:0001491
• Endocrine gland habitatmech:GOLD.2f5a0b5455
• Endocrine gland habitatmech:GOLD.c26b92ece6

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Taxa reported from this habitat

Taxon	Source	Rank	Pool	Corroborated
Chromobacterium violaceum ATCC 12472 NCBITaxon:243365	PREGO	1	2
Escherichia coli HS NCBITaxon:331112	PREGO	2	2

Also called

• Adrenal glands — GOLD
• adrenal — PREGO
• adrenal capsular — PREGO
• adrenal capsule — PREGO
• adrenal capsules — PREGO
• adrenal glandic — PREGO
• adrenal glands — PREGO
• adrenalic — PREGO
• adrenals — PREGO
• atrabiliary capsular — PREGO
• atrabiliary capsule — PREGO
• atrabiliary capsules — PREGO
• epinephros — PREGO
• epinephroses — PREGO
• glandula suprarenalis — PREGO
• glandula suprarenalises — PREGO
• paranephros — PREGO
• paranephroses — PREGO
• suprarenal capsular — PREGO
• suprarenal capsule — PREGO
• suprarenal capsules — PREGO
• suprarenal gland — PREGO
• suprarenal glandic — PREGO
• suprarenal glands — PREGO

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

1. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to BTO:0000047 'adrenal gland' (EXACT). 2 GOLD paths share this leaf and differ only in host clade. Merged onto BTO:0000047 deliberately: the structure is the same wherever it sits and the host lives in the taxon, as with feces and blood serum. Each path survives in source_attestations. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.5b2265e44e)

2. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to BTO:0000047 'adrenal gland' (EXACT). 2 GOLD paths share this leaf and differ only in host clade. Merged onto BTO:0000047 deliberately: the structure is the same wherever it sits and the host lives in the taxon, as with feces and blood serum. Each path survives in source_attestations. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.e9371b4536)

3. REVIEW 2026-08-13 · claude-opus-5

   Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. Multi-source review pass: this record is attested by more than one independent vocabulary, and this source's label or path was read against the record's ontology term to check the merge is right. It agrees. Source concepts in the same pass whose labels did not agree were re-decided rather than endorsed; see the pass's other decisions of the same date. (source concept habitatmech:PREGO.a6ae0d69a2)

Provenance

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