HabitatMech

inland saline or alkaline aquatic environment

habitatmech:GOLD.ce244e62cd ·AQUATIC ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

An aquatic environment which is determined by an inland water body whose water is substantially more saline than fresh water, substantially more alkaline than circumneutral water, or both. — HabitatMech

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
SourceLabel / pathAssertionsUnit
BACDIVE Non-marine-Saline-and-Alkaline
Upstream mapping targets a non-habitat ontology (PATO:0001430); the curated decision deliberately does not carry that partial mapping onto the generated record.		 37 STRAIN
GOLD Environmental > Aquatic > Non-marine Saline and Alkaline
3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.		 121 ORGANISM

Broader habitats

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
TaxonSourceRankPoolCorroborated
uncultured Bacillus sp. NCBITaxon:83428 BACDIVE 1 28
Marinospirillum sp. NCBITaxon:2183934 BACDIVE 2 28
Virgibacillus sp. NCBITaxon:1872700 BACDIVE 3 28
Nitrincola sp. NCBITaxon:1926584 BACDIVE 4 28
Desulfonatronovibrio thiodismutans NCBITaxon:617000 BACDIVE 5 28
Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum NCBITaxon:1008392 BACDIVE 6 28
Halorubrum saccharovorum DSM 1137 NCBITaxon:1227484 BACDIVE 7 28
Natrialba hulunbeirensis JCM 10989 NCBITaxon:1227493 BACDIVE 8 28
Nocardiopsis kunsanensis DSM 44524 NCBITaxon:1246445 BACDIVE 9 28
Alkaliphilus namsaraevii NCBITaxon:1454184 BACDIVE 10 28
Halomicrobium urmianum NCBITaxon:1586233 BACDIVE 11 28
Maridesulfovibrio salinus NCBITaxon:1721088 BACDIVE 12 28
Natronospira proteinivora NCBITaxon:1807133 BACDIVE 13 28
Rhodohalobacter halophilus NCBITaxon:1812810 BACDIVE 14 28
Gracilibacillus sp. NCBITaxon:1871618 BACDIVE 15 28
Idiomarina sp. NCBITaxon:1874361 BACDIVE 16 28
Spongiibacter sp. NCBITaxon:2024860 BACDIVE 17 28
Idiomarina ramblicola NCBITaxon:263724 BACDIVE 18 28
Halomonas elongata NCBITaxon:2746 BACDIVE 19 28
Roseinatronobacter monicus NCBITaxon:393481 BACDIVE 20 28
Virgibacillus chiguensis NCBITaxon:411959 BACDIVE 21 28
Desulfonatronospira delicata NCBITaxon:488938 BACDIVE 22 28
Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans ASO3-1 NCBITaxon:555779 BACDIVE 23 28
Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus AHT 2 NCBITaxon:589865 BACDIVE 24 28
Desulfonatronum thioautotrophicum NCBITaxon:617001 BACDIVE 25 28

Also called

Curation

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

  1. SAME_AS 2026-08-25 · codex-gpt-5

    Merged into habitatmech:GOLD.ce244e62cd 'Non-marine Saline and Alkaline': the same concept under another source's name. Duplicate correction (#110, #185): BacDive's “Non-marine-Saline-and-Alkaline” isolation-source bin and GOLD's identically scoped node denote the same broad inland aquatic habitat. The earlier “quality, not a place” ruling was wrong for the source concept, so its 37 STRAIN assertions and taxa merge into the defined GOLD survivor. BacDive's automatic PATO:0001430 alkaline xref is deliberately not carried: it covers only one arm of this saline-or-alkaline disjunction and would misleadingly drop the saline arm. (source concept habitatmech:BACDIVE.9a0a53afc1)

  2. CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-25 · codex-gpt-5

    Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Nearest broader term ENVO:01000317 'aquatic environment' attached as a parent. Definition review (#110, #185): GOLD's node names the broad environment grouping its inland saline, alkaline and combined descendants, not a bare water quality. The earlier “quality, not a place” ruling confused the modifiers with the source concept and left a genuine 121-organism habitat undefined. ENVO:01000317 is the defensible existing genus. The inherited aquatic-biome edge is replaced by the curated definition because this source bin also contains operated settings such as solar salterns and fracking water. The node is disjunctive — saline OR alkaline OR both — and descendants that leak outside the intended inland scope remain independently curated. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.ce244e62cd)

  3. DEFINED 2026-08-25 · codex-gpt-5

    Defined as 'inland saline or alkaline aquatic environment' under ENVO:01000317 'aquatic environment'. Definition curated from the committed deep-research report for this record (#110, #185). The “or both” wording preserves GOLD's disjunctive hierarchy instead of claiming every child is simultaneously saline and alkaline. “Inland” is preferred to “non-marine” because marine-derived inland brines can remain geographically inland, while “athalassohaline” is not an exact synonym because it classifies water by ionic composition rather than location. Parent replacement is intentional: GOLD's inherited aquatic-biome edge is false for the node's operated-setting descendants, whereas ENVO's aquatic-environment genus covers both natural and engineered water-determined settings. Dropped the exact synonym 'Non-marine-Saline-and-Alkaline' (#213): it is BacDive's label for the concept GOLD spells 'Non-marine Saline and Alkaline', and the two differ only in punctuation. Both source labels survive on the record's source_attestations, where they identify which source said what; as a pair of EXACT synonyms they would read to an ENVO editor as the same string written twice. Found by the guard added for this issue, not by the review that filed it.

Provenance

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