malpighian tubule

BTO:0000810 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

Any of a group of long blind vessels opening into the posterior part of the alimentary canal in most insects and some other arthropods and functioning primarily as excretory organs. — 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 > Arthropoda: Insects > Excretory system > Malpighian tubules 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	24	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

excretory gland BTO:0000431
viscus BTO:0001491
Excretory system habitatmech:GOLD.3a0549cbd8

Also called

Malpighian tubules — GOLD

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 BTO:0000810 'malpighian tubule' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the BTO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Excretory system > Malpighian tubules (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.6adee20614)

Provenance

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