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marine benthic biome

ENVO:01000024 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT REVIEWED

The marine benthic biome (benthic meaning 'bottom') encompasses the seafloor and includes such areas as shores, littoral or intertidal areas, marine coral reefs, and the deep seabed. — 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 > Benthic	15	ORGANISM
GOLD	Environmental > Aquatic > Freshwater > Desert springs > Benthic	—
GOLD	Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Benthic	—
PREGO	marine benthic biome	2067	TAXON

Broader habitats

• oceanic zone ENVO:00000207
• marine biome ENVO:00000447
• marine water body ENVO:00001999
• Desert springs habitatmech:GOLD.3b64b1f98f

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	Corroborated
NCBITaxon:406538	PREGO	1	2067
NCBITaxon:406540	PREGO	2	2067
NCBITaxon:29158	PREGO	3	2067
NCBITaxon:6613	PREGO	4	2067
NCBITaxon:106299	PREGO	5	2067
NCBITaxon:80836	PREGO	6	2067
NCBITaxon:69293	PREGO	7	2067
NCBITaxon:8090	PREGO	8	2067
NCBITaxon:7425	PREGO	9	2067
NCBITaxon:104421	PREGO	10	2067
NCBITaxon:29159	PREGO	11	2067
NCBITaxon:6182	PREGO	12	2067
NCBITaxon:9258	PREGO	13	2067
NCBITaxon:483417	PREGO	14	2067
NCBITaxon:7029	PREGO	15	2067
NCBITaxon:6334	PREGO	16	2067
NCBITaxon:13686	PREGO	17	2067
NCBITaxon:6238	PREGO	18	2067
NCBITaxon:7070	PREGO	19	2067
NCBITaxon:483407	PREGO	20	2067
NCBITaxon:7159	PREGO	21	2067
NCBITaxon:9031	PREGO	22	2067
NCBITaxon:121224	PREGO	23	2067
NCBITaxon:6945	PREGO	24	2067
NCBITaxon:7209	PREGO	25	2067

Also called

• Benthic — GOLD
• marine benthic — PREGO
• marine benthics — PREGO

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 ENVO:01000024 'marine benthic biome' (CLOSE). ENVO frames the benthic as a biome; GOLD's node is the zone, hence CLOSE. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Oceanic > Benthic (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.01adfdcfa4)

2. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to ENVO:01000024 'marine benthic biome' (CLOSE). ENVO frames the benthic as a biome; GOLD's node is the zone, hence CLOSE. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Freshwater > Desert springs > Benthic (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.8911f04011)

3. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to ENVO:01000024 'marine benthic biome' (CLOSE). ENVO frames the benthic as a biome; GOLD's node is the zone, hence CLOSE. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Benthic (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.d0bf6f6843)

4. 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.41a65dc075)

Provenance

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