Air sacs

habitatmech:GOLD.3982893194 ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

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 > Arthropoda: Insects > Respiratory system > Trachea > Air sacs	—

Broader habitats

Trachea habitatmech:GOLD.2a2774b70a

Curation

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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Sibling-path review (#12): grounding the bird 'Air sacs' concept made this one's sweep stale, but UBERON's air sacs are ALL vertebrate — UBERON:0009060 is defined as extensions of the lungs of birds, and every sibling term is avian or cetacean. The path is Insects > Respiratory system > Trachea, where an air sac is a tracheal dilation. UBERON has no insect air sac. Path: Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Respiratory system > Trachea > Air sacs (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.3982893194)

Provenance

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