HabitatMech

fish skin lesion environment

habitatmech:GOLD.be021eb56c ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

A skin environment which is determined by a focal region of fish skin whose mucus layer and epidermis have been breached or eroded by injury or disease, exposing dermal, scale-pocket, or muscle tissue and exudate directly to the surrounding water. — HabitatMech

Source attestations

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GOLD Host-associated > Fish > Integumentary system > Skin > Lesion 23 ORGANISM

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  1. CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-14 · claude-opus-5

    Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Stale-sweep review (#12): the fish skin-lesion concept, same as the human one — NCIT's 'Lesion' is a finding, not a place. Path: Host-associated > Fish > Integumentary system > Skin > Lesion (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.be021eb56c)

  2. DEFINED 2026-09-18 · codex-gpt-5

    Defined as 'fish skin lesion environment' under ENVO:2100003 'skin environment'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; no new paid research was commissioned. GOLD's Host-associated > Fish > Integumentary system > Skin > Lesion leaf is interpreted as pathologically altered fish skin spanning erosions and ulcers rather than intact skin, epidermal mucus, gill lesions, or systemic organs of ulcerated fish. ENVO:2100003 'skin environment' is the tightest vendored genus; the definition keeps ambient-water exposure in the differentia so this term remains distinct from the human skin lesion environment. No exact synonyms were authored because attested lesion-site and cutaneous-lesion names are either host-generic or narrower syndrome names, and host-scoped variants would be coined (#339).

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