marine aphotic zone

ENVO:00000210 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT REVIEWED

The zone of an ocean below 200m, in which photosynthesis cannot occur due to the lack of light. — ENVO

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	Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Oceanic > Aphotic zone	146	ORGANISM
PREGO	marine aphotic zone	13	TAXON

Broader habitats

oceanic zone ENVO:00000207
marine layer ENVO:01000295

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
Taxon	Source	Rank	Pool
Mesoaciditoga lauensis cd-1655R = DSM 25116 `NCBITaxon:1150474`	PREGO	1	13
Celeribacter indicus `NCBITaxon:1208324`	PREGO	2	13
Melghirimyces profundicolus `NCBITaxon:1242148`	PREGO	3	13
Brevirhabdus pacifica `NCBITaxon:1267768`	PREGO	4	13
Allosediminivita pacifica `NCBITaxon:1267769`	PREGO	5	13
Chryseobacterium profundimaris `NCBITaxon:1387275`	PREGO	6	13
Pacificitalea manganoxidans `NCBITaxon:1411902`	PREGO	7	13
Pseudodesulfovibrio indicus `NCBITaxon:1716143`	PREGO	8	13
Abyssicoccus albus `NCBITaxon:1817405`	PREGO	9	13
Algoriphagus iocasae `NCBITaxon:1836499`	PREGO	10	13
Balnearium lithotrophicum `NCBITaxon:223788`	PREGO	11	13
Roseovarius pacificus `NCBITaxon:337701`	PREGO	12	13
Salipiger marinus `NCBITaxon:555512`	PREGO	13	13

Also called

Aphotic zone — GOLD
AphoticZone — ENVO
aphotic — PREGO
aphotic zone — PREGO
aphotics — PREGO

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 ENVO:00000210 'marine aphotic zone' (EXACT). GOLD's Marine > Aphotic zone is exactly this ENVO term. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Oceanic > Aphotic zone (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.de5b5dffd1)
REVIEW 2026-08-13 · claude-opus-5
Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. Multi-source review pass: this record is attested by more than one independent vocabulary, and this source's label or path was read against the record's ontology term to check the merge is right. It agrees. Source concepts in the same pass whose labels did not agree were re-decided rather than endorsed; see the pass's other decisions of the same date. (source concept habitatmech:PREGO.228ab72fbd)

Provenance

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