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
`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.

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)
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)
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)
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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