HabitatMech

hypodermis

BTO:0000313 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

The outer cellular layer of the body of invertebrates which secretes the cuticular exoskeleton. — BTO

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 > Mammals: Human > Integumentary system > Skin > Hypodermis/Subcutis	—

Broader habitats

• integument BTO:0000634
• Skin habitatmech:GOLD.4b37ab4b76

Also called

• Hypodermis/Subcutis — GOLD

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 BTO:0000313 'hypodermis' (EXACT). Slash alternative naming one thing; grounded to the head term. Pulled out of the class-level sweep, whose note wrongly claimed no term matched. Label: 'Hypodermis/Subcutis'. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.115cc4559e)

Provenance

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