Contamination

habitatmech:BACDIVE.0c0740efd8 ·OTHER ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

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
BACDIVE	Contamination	474	STRAIN

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
Janibacter terrae `NCBITaxon:103817`	BACDIVE	1	398
Anaeromyxobacter dehalogenans `NCBITaxon:161493`	BACDIVE	2	398
Arthrobacter sp. `NCBITaxon:1667`	BACDIVE	3	398
Mycolicibacterium gilvum `NCBITaxon:1804`	BACDIVE	4	398
Sphingomonas sp. `NCBITaxon:28214`	BACDIVE	5	398
Rhodococcus opacus `NCBITaxon:37919`	BACDIVE	6	398
Leifsonia aquatica `NCBITaxon:144185`	BACDIVE	7	398
Rhodococcus ruber `NCBITaxon:1830`	BACDIVE	8	398
Pseudomonas sp. `NCBITaxon:306`	BACDIVE	9	398
Lysinibacillus macroides `NCBITaxon:33935`	BACDIVE	10	398
uncultured Bacillus sp. `NCBITaxon:83428`	BACDIVE	11	398
Stutzerimonas kunmingensis `NCBITaxon:1211807`	BACDIVE	12	398
uncultured Rhodococcus sp. `NCBITaxon:194249`	BACDIVE	13	398
Pseudomonas fluorescens `NCBITaxon:294`	BACDIVE	14	398
Corynebacterium tuberculostearicum `NCBITaxon:38304`	BACDIVE	15	398
Mycolicibacterium frederiksbergense `NCBITaxon:117567`	BACDIVE	16	398
Sphingobium yanoikuyae `NCBITaxon:13690`	BACDIVE	17	398
Bacillus licheniformis `NCBITaxon:1402`	BACDIVE	18	398
Cutibacterium acnes `NCBITaxon:1747`	BACDIVE	19	398
Rhodococcoides fascians `NCBITaxon:1828`	BACDIVE	20	398
bacterium `NCBITaxon:1869227`	BACDIVE	21	398
Afipia sp. `NCBITaxon:1871052`	BACDIVE	22	398
Acidovorax sp. `NCBITaxon:1872122`	BACDIVE	23	398
Aquabacterium sp. `NCBITaxon:1872578`	BACDIVE	24	398
Bacteria `NCBITaxon:2`	BACDIVE	25	398

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.

anthropogenic contamination feature ENVO:00002204

Curation

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

CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Nearest broader term ENVO:00002204 'anthropogenic contamination feature' attached as a parent. Risky-grounding review (#12): the seeder made ENVO:00002204 'anthropogenic contamination feature' the identity of BacDive's 'Contamination' category — the highest-volume risky grounding at 474 strains. The term asserts two things BacDive does not: that the contamination is anthropogenic, and that the thing is a geographic feature with elevated contaminants in its materials. BacDive's category says only that a strain was isolated as a contaminant, which is as often of a product, a culture or a cleanroom as of a place. These are different concepts rather than a broader and a narrower one, so the term is not a parent either — parent_habitats asserts the parent is BROADER. Kept as an xref (#99), which records that upstream saw a connection without this repo asserting one. (source concept habitatmech:BACDIVE.0c0740efd8)

Provenance

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