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
GOLD	Host-associated > Annelida > Digestive system > Digestive tube > Cast	3	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

animal waste material ENVO:00002276
excreta UBERON:0000174
digestive tract UBERON:0001555
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
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

Cast — GOLD
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.

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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
GROUND 2026-08-21 · codex-gpt-5
Grounded to UBERON:0001988 'feces' (CLOSE). Non-habitat screen review (#108): Host-associated > Annelida > Digestive system > Digestive tube > Cast refers to an annelid cast, the fecal material produced from the digestive tube. UBERON's feces term names that physical habitat; CLOSE preserves the organism-specific wording. The HGNC acronym collision is unrelated. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.53337a753d)

Provenance

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