canal

ENVO:00000014 ·resolve ·ENGINEERED ·EXACT REVIEWED

Artificial watercourse with no flow or a controlled flow used for navigation, drainage or irrigation. — 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	Engineered > Built environment > Canal 3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	3	ORGANISM
PREGO	canal	3	TAXON

Broader habitats

watercourse ENVO:00000029
Built Environment mesh:D000076624

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
Desulfatibacillum aliphaticivorans DSM 15576 `NCBITaxon:1121392`	PREGO	1	3
Malonomonas rubra DSM 5091 `NCBITaxon:1122189`	PREGO	2	3
Desulfurispirillum indicum S5 `NCBITaxon:653733`	PREGO	3	3

Also called

canal bend — PREGO
canal bends — PREGO
canalic — PREGO
canals — PREGO
drain (channel) — PREGO
irrigation system — PREGO
irrigation systems — PREGO
lateral — PREGO
lateralic — PREGO
laterals — PREGO

Curation

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

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:GOLD.258a8a071f)
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.336169b200)

Provenance

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