chelicerate-associated environment
An animal-associated environment which is determined by a chelicerate or by a part of a chelicerate.
Source attestations
| Source | Label / path | Assertions | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | Host-associated > Arthropoda: Chelicerates |
169 | ORGANISM |
Broader habitats
- environmental system determined by an organism
ENVO:01001000 - animal-associated environment
ENVO:01001002
Related terms
- Arthropoda
NCBITaxon:6656
Also called
- Arthropoda: Chelicerates
Curation
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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. NCBITaxon:6656 'Arthropoda' 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. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.44a2cbbd60)
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DEFINED
Defined as 'chelicerate-associated environment' under ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment'. Definition curated from the committed deep-research report. Parented to animal-associated environment rather than the broader organism-determined root; the existing NCBITaxon:6656 reference is deliberately retained only as a broader taxonomic xref because it denotes all arthropods, not this habitat.