air sac

UBERON:0009060 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

Any of the membranous air-filled extensions of the lungs of birds, which increase the efficiency of gaseous exchange in the lungs. — UBERON

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 > Birds > Respiratory system > Air sacs 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

multicellular anatomical structure UBERON:0010000
Respiratory system habitatmech:GOLD.0c74807e42

Also called

Air sacs — GOLD
psotcranial air sac — UBERON
sacci pneumatici — UBERON

Curation

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

GROUND 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to UBERON:0009060 'air sac' (EXACT). Variant-match review (#12): the seeder grounds on exact labels only, so GOLD's slash and plural conventions hid a term that says exactly this. UBERON defines air sac as the membranous air-filled extensions of the lungs of birds, and the path is Birds > Respiratory system. Path: Host-associated > Birds > Respiratory system > Air sacs (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.1dec05f10e)

Provenance

Generated by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.