marine mesopelagic zone

ENVO:00000213 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT REVIEWED

The zone of an ocean immediately below the photic zone down to a depth where the water temperature is 10degC (the thermocline). — 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 > Mesopelagic 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	34	ORGANISM
PREGO	marine mesopelagic zone	4	TAXON

Broader habitats

marine aphotic zone ENVO:00000210
marine water body ENVO:00001999

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
alpha proteobacterium SCGC AAA240-E13 `NCBITaxon:939306`	PREGO	1	4
alpha proteobacterium SCGC AAA288-E13 `NCBITaxon:939316`	PREGO	2	4
alpha proteobacterium SCGC AAA288-G21 `NCBITaxon:939324`	PREGO	3	4
alpha proteobacterium SCGC AAA288-N07 `NCBITaxon:939346`	PREGO	4	4

Also called

Mesopelagic — GOLD
mesopelagic — PREGO
mesopelagic zone — PREGO
mesopelagics — 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:00000213 'marine mesopelagic zone' (EXACT). GOLD's Marine > Mesopelagic is exactly this ENVO zone. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Mesopelagic (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.76bc4edc73)
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.33f83f4f4c)

Provenance

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