HabitatMech

bronchiole

BTO:0002375 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

A minute thin-walled branch of a bronchus. — 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 > Respiratory system > Lung > Bronchioles	28	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

• Lung habitatmech:GOLD.5bbc13545b

Also called

• Bronchioles — GOLD

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:0002375 'bronchiole' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the BTO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Respiratory system > Lung > Bronchioles (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.1cfb2fdc59)

Provenance

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