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marine photic zone

ENVO:00000209 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT REVIEWED

The zone of an ocean from the surface to where photosynthesis can occur, due to the penetration 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 > Photic zone	25	ORGANISM
PREGO	marine photic zone	1607	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	Corroborated
Synechococcus sp. CC9605 NCBITaxon:110662	PREGO	1	1607
Synechococcus sp. CC9902 NCBITaxon:316279	PREGO	2	1607
Prochlorococcus marinus str. NATL2A NCBITaxon:59920	PREGO	3	1607
Prochlorococcus marinus str. MIT 9312 NCBITaxon:74546	PREGO	4	1607
Prochlorococcus marinus str. MIT 9313 NCBITaxon:74547	PREGO	5	1607
Ruegeria pomeroyi NCBITaxon:89184	PREGO	6	1607
Arenibacter latericius NCBITaxon:86104	PREGO	7	1607
Burkholderia mallei SAVP1 NCBITaxon:320388	PREGO	8	1607
Buchnera aphidicola BCc NCBITaxon:372461	PREGO	9	1607
Ehrlichia ruminantium str. Gardel NCBITaxon:302409	PREGO	10	1607
Ehrlichia chaffeensis str. Sapulpa NCBITaxon:332415	PREGO	11	1607
Mycoplasma leachii PG50 NCBITaxon:880447	PREGO	12	1607
Maridesulfovibrio salexigens NCBITaxon:880	PREGO	13	1607
Buchnera aphidicola str. Sg (Schizaphis graminum) NCBITaxon:198804	PREGO	14	1607
Buchnera aphidicola str. Bp (Baizongia pistaciae) NCBITaxon:224915	PREGO	15	1607
Candidatus Riesia pediculicola USDA NCBITaxon:515618	PREGO	16	1607
Wigglesworthia glossinidia endosymbiont of Glossina brevipalpis NCBITaxon:36870	PREGO	17	1607
Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capricolum ATCC 27343 NCBITaxon:340047	PREGO	18	1607
Candidatus Blochmanniella floridana NCBITaxon:203907	PREGO	19	1607
Francisella tularensis subsp. novicida NCBITaxon:264	PREGO	20	1607
Orientia tsutsugamushi str. Boryong NCBITaxon:357244	PREGO	21	1607
NCBITaxon:35845	PREGO	22	1607
Rickettsia akari str. Hartford NCBITaxon:293614	PREGO	23	1607
Rickettsia typhi str. Wilmington NCBITaxon:257363	PREGO	24	1607
Ehrlichia chaffeensis str. Arkansas NCBITaxon:205920	PREGO	25	1607

Also called

• Photic zone — GOLD
• PhoticZone — ENVO
• epipelagic — PREGO
• epipelagic zone — ENVO
• epipelagic zone — PREGO
• epipelagics — PREGO
• photic — PREGO
• photic zone — PREGO
• photics — 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:00000209 'marine photic zone' (EXACT). GOLD's Marine > Photic zone is exactly this ENVO zone. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Oceanic > Photic zone (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.7d154f5642)

2. 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.ecfad8372c)

Provenance

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