HabitatMech

feces

UBERON:0001988 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

Portion of semisolid bodily waste discharged through the anus[MW,modified]. — UBERON

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	Feces-Stool	2421	STRAIN
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Digestive system > Large intestine > Fecal	13744	ORGANISM
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals > Digestive system > Large intestine > Fecal	4785	ORGANISM
GOLD	Host-associated > Birds > Digestive system > Large intestine > Fecal	1229	ORGANISM
GOLD	Engineered > Solid waste > Animal waste > Guano 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	2	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

• animal waste material ENVO:00002276
• excreta UBERON:0000174
• Large intestine habitatmech:GOLD.5b0aa7456c
• Large intestine habitatmech:GOLD.6bda0871e2
• Large intestine habitatmech:GOLD.b091b80314

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	Corroborated
Escherichia coli NCBITaxon:562	BACDIVE	1	984
Myxococcus fulvus NCBITaxon:33	BACDIVE	2	984
Corallococcus coralloides NCBITaxon:184914	BACDIVE	3	984
Campylobacter jejuni NCBITaxon:197	BACDIVE	4	984
Salmonella enterica NCBITaxon:28901	BACDIVE	5	984
Myxococcus virescens NCBITaxon:83456	BACDIVE	6	984
Nannocystis exedens NCBITaxon:54	BACDIVE	7	984
Sorangium cellulosum NCBITaxon:56	BACDIVE	8	984
Myxococcus xanthus NCBITaxon:34	BACDIVE	9	984
Campylobacter upsaliensis NCBITaxon:28080	BACDIVE	10	984
Clostridioides difficile NCBITaxon:1496	BACDIVE	11	984
Plesiomonas shigelloides NCBITaxon:703	BACDIVE	12	984
Enterococcus faecium NCBITaxon:1352	BACDIVE	13	984
Archangium sp. NCBITaxon:1872627	BACDIVE	14	984
Corallococcus exiguus NCBITaxon:83462	BACDIVE	15	984
Campylobacter sputorum NCBITaxon:206	BACDIVE	16	984
Vibrio cholerae NCBITaxon:666	BACDIVE	17	984
Herpetosiphon sp. NCBITaxon:71864	BACDIVE	18	984
Allostigmatella erecta NCBITaxon:83460	BACDIVE	19	984
Campylobacter coli NCBITaxon:195	BACDIVE	20	984
Yersinia enterocolitica NCBITaxon:630	BACDIVE	21	984
Campylobacter hyointestinalis NCBITaxon:198	BACDIVE	22	984
Bacteria NCBITaxon:2	BACDIVE	23	984
Eggerthella lenta NCBITaxon:84112	BACDIVE	24	984
Archangium disciforme NCBITaxon:38	BACDIVE	25	984

Also called

• Fecal — GOLD
• Feces-Stool — BacDive
• Guano — GOLD
• cow dung — UBERON
• cow pat — UBERON
• droppings — UBERON
• dung — UBERON
• excrement — UBERON
• excreta — UBERON
• faeces — UBERON
• fecal material — UBERON
• fecal matter — UBERON
• fewmet — UBERON
• frass — UBERON
• guano — UBERON
• ordure — UBERON
• piece of shit — UBERON
• portion of dung — UBERON
• portion of excrement — UBERON
• portion of faeces — UBERON
• portion of fecal material — UBERON
• portion of fecal matter — UBERON
• portion of feces — UBERON
• portion of guano — UBERON
• portion of scat — UBERON
• portionem cacas — UBERON
• scat — UBERON
• spoor — UBERON
• spraint — UBERON
• stool — UBERON

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 UBERON:0001988 'feces' (EXACT). BacDive's Feces-Stool isolation source is exactly feces. Completes the feces record, whose other four attestations are already curated. (source concept habitatmech:BACDIVE.cf280d9e3d)

2. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to UBERON:0001988 'feces' (EXACT). Mammalian fecal material. Grounded with the human and bird fecal paths onto one feces record: feces is feces, and the host distinction lives in the taxon rather than the habitat term. Each GOLD path survives in source_attestations with its full host context. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.3671b973b2)

3. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to UBERON:0001988 'feces' (EXACT). Avian fecal material. Merges with the human and mammalian fecal paths; see the note on the mammalian one for why the host distinction does not block the merge. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.515763f493)

4. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to UBERON:0001988 'feces' (BROAD). Guano is bird and bat excrement, a kind of feces, so UBERON:0001988 is broader than the source concept. Merges into the shared feces record alongside the three GOLD fecal paths. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.c668d78963)

5. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to UBERON:0001988 'feces' (EXACT). Human fecal material, the largest single fecal path. Grounded onto the shared feces record; the human context survives in source_attestations. This is the case issue #12 called out as blocked on the shallowest-depth tie, resolved by curation rather than by loosening the tie rule. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.d11c365b20)

Provenance

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