HabitatMech

aquatic mammal-associated environment

habitatmech:BACDIVE.15180e7ff9 ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

An animal-associated environment which is determined by a mammal that inhabits water, or by a part of such a mammal. — 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
SourceLabel / pathAssertionsUnit
BACDIVE Aquatic-mammal 69 STRAIN

Broader habitats

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
TaxonSourceRankPoolCorroborated
Mycoplasma sp. NCBITaxon:2108 BACDIVE 1 46
Arcanobacterium phocae NCBITaxon:131112 BACDIVE 2 46
Brevibacterium otitidis NCBITaxon:53364 BACDIVE 3 46
Bisgaardia hudsonensis NCBITaxon:109472 BACDIVE 4 46
Streptococcus phocae NCBITaxon:119224 BACDIVE 5 46
Ureaplasma sp. NCBITaxon:1965234 BACDIVE 6 46
Paenimyroides ceti NCBITaxon:395087 BACDIVE 7 46
Streptococcus iniae NCBITaxon:1346 BACDIVE 8 46
Boudabousia marimammalium NCBITaxon:156892 BACDIVE 9 46
Streptococcus marimammalium NCBITaxon:269666 BACDIVE 10 46
Staphylococcus delphini NCBITaxon:53344 BACDIVE 11 46
Ureaplasma miroungigenitalium NCBITaxon:1042321 BACDIVE 12 46
Arcanobacterium pluranimalium NCBITaxon:108028 BACDIVE 13 46
Corynebacterium caspium DSM 44850 NCBITaxon:1121355 BACDIVE 14 46
Ligilactobacillus ceti DSM 22408 NCBITaxon:1122146 BACDIVE 15 46
Neptunomonas japonica DSM 18939 NCBITaxon:1122599 BACDIVE 16 46
Oceanivirga miroungae NCBITaxon:1130046 BACDIVE 17 46
Psychromonas macrocephali ATCC BAA-1527 NCBITaxon:1278303 BACDIVE 18 46
Psychromonas ossibalaenae ATCC BAA-1528 NCBITaxon:1278307 BACDIVE 19 46
Amphritea japonica ATCC BAA-1530 NCBITaxon:1278309 BACDIVE 20 46
Amphritea balenae ATCC BAA-1529 NCBITaxon:1278310 BACDIVE 21 46
Psychromonas aquimarina ATCC BAA-1526 NCBITaxon:1278312 BACDIVE 22 46
Atopobacter phocae ATCC BAA-285 NCBITaxon:1336234 BACDIVE 23 46
Granulicatella balaenopterae NCBITaxon:137733 BACDIVE 24 46
Helicobacter cetorum NCBITaxon:138563 BACDIVE 25 46

Related terms

Terms a source linked to this concept without this record claiming to be one of them, or to be narrower than one. A cross-reference, not a grounding.

Also called

Curation

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

  1. CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5

    Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. FOODON:03411134 'mammal' kept as an xref. Host-taxon reversal (#114): this was NOT_APPLICABLE on the reasoning that 'a host taxon is not a habitat'. That reasoning is wrong, and the corpus already contradicted it — the same kind of concept was treated as a habitat for Sponge, Nematoda, Reptilia, Mammals, Birds and Fish, which keep their own identity and a term request for an <X>-associated environment. Host-associated > Porifera was NOT_APPLICABLE while its own child Porifera > Sponge was a term request.An organism acting as a host IS a habitat: it is where the microbe lives, and ENVO models exactly this at plant-associated, animal-associated and fungi-associated environment. What is not a habitat is the TAXON TERM — a phylum is a class of organisms, not a place — so the taxon stays an xref (#99) and the concept keeps its own identity as a term-request candidate. NOT_APPLICABLE said the concept is not a habitat, which is a stronger and false claim. Category set to HOST_ASSOCIATED (#110): the curated definition parents this to ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment', which is the claim that a living animal host defines the habitat, so OTHER would contradict the record's own parent. (source concept habitatmech:BACDIVE.15180e7ff9)

  2. DEFINED 2026-08-28 · claude-opus-5

    Defined as 'aquatic mammal-associated environment' under ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; the report's proposed sentence, genus and near-miss table are the evidence. No new research was commissioned. Covers cetaceans, sirenians, pinnipeds and aquatic carnivorans, which is what the source bin holds. Same disposition already recorded for Fish, Birds, Mammals and Sponges.

Provenance

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