black smoker

ENVO:00000218 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT REVIEWED

A hydrothermal vent found on the ocean floor. The vents are formed in fields hundreds of meters wide when supeRHEAted water from below the Earth's crust comes through the ocean floor. The supeRHEAted water is rich in dissolved minerals from the crust, most notably sulfides, which crystallize to create a chimney-like structure around each vent. When the supeRHEAted water in the vent comes in contact with the cold ocean water, many minerals are precipitated, creating the distinctive black color. The metal sulfides that are deposited can become massive sulfide ore deposits in time. — ENVO

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	Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Hydrothermal vents > Black smokers	27	ORGANISM
PREGO	black smoker	12	TAXON

Broader habitats

hydrothermal vent ENVO:00000215
marine hydrothermal vent ENVO:01000122

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
Sulfurimonas autotrophica `NCBITaxon:202747`	PREGO	1	12
Lebetimonas acidiphila `NCBITaxon:267990`	PREGO	2	12
`NCBITaxon:36987`	PREGO	3	12
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii M21/2 `NCBITaxon:411485`	PREGO	4	12
Desulfobulbus sp. DSM 2033 `NCBITaxon:449306`	PREGO	5	12
Heliomicrobium modesticaldum Ice1 `NCBITaxon:498761`	PREGO	6	12
Desulfomicrobium apsheronum `NCBITaxon:52560`	PREGO	7	12
Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis CCUG 52486 `NCBITaxon:537937`	PREGO	8	12
Syntrophus aciditrophicus SB `NCBITaxon:56780`	PREGO	9	12
`NCBITaxon:6376`	PREGO	10	12
Methanotorris formicicus Mc-S-70 `NCBITaxon:647171`	PREGO	11	12
Archaeoglobus veneficus SNP6 `NCBITaxon:693661`	PREGO	12	12

Also called

Black smokers — GOLD
active chimney — ENVO
active chimney — PREGO
active chimneys — PREGO
black smokers — PREGO
oceanic vent — ENVO
oceanic vent — PREGO
oceanic vents — PREGO
sea vent — ENVO
sea vent — PREGO
sea vents — PREGO

Curation

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

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to ENVO:00000218 'black smoker' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the ENVO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Hydrothermal vents > Black smokers (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.a9f4ef57f4)
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.ab4c7e091e)

Provenance

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