caprine-associated environment

habitatmech:BACDIVE.4d3086a839 ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

An animal-associated environment which is determined by a sheep or a goat. — 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.

Broader habitats

• animal-associated environment ENVO:01001002

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.

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.

• goatFOODON:03411328

Also called

• Caprinae-Sheep/Goat — HabitatMech curation

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:03411328 'goat' 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 (#200): the row already claims ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment' as the nearest broader term, which is the claim that a living animal host defines the habitat, and every other record carrying that parent is HOST_ASSOCIATED. The category column was left blank here, so the seeder's default stood and five domestic-mammal hosts stayed in OTHER while their siblings did not. The reasoning above is unchanged. (source concept habitatmech:BACDIVE.4d3086a839)

2. DEFINED 2026-08-17 · claude-opus-5

   Defined as 'caprine-associated environment' under ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment'. Definition drafted from the record's deep-research report under research/habitats/ and read against it; the report's proposed wording, genus and near-miss table are the evidence. BacDive's label names both hosts and the mapping upstream dropped the sheep half, so the definition keeps both.

Provenance

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