Hepatic caecum

habitatmech:GOLD.d89135723c ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·NARROW 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
GOLD	Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Digestive system > Midgut > Hepatic caecum	—

Broader habitats

midgut BTO:0000863
Midgut habitatmech:GOLD.67c565f695

Curation

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

GROUND_AS_PARENT 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
BTO:0000863 'midgut' attached as a parent, not adopted as the identity (NARROW). CLOSE-grounding review (#12): the seeder grounded 'Arthropoda: Insects > Digestive system > Midgut > Hepatic caecum' to UBERON:0012474 'hepatic cecum', whose definition is 'a ventral evagination extending anteriorly in the mid-portion of the intestine in Amphioxi' — a cephalochordate structure, not an insect one. BTO:0002855 carries the same Amphioxus definition, so neither ontology has the insect caecum. Attached to BTO:0000863 'midgut' instead, which is both the correct broader structure and the path's own parent step. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.d89135723c)

Provenance

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