HabitatMech

nasopharynx

UBERON:0001728 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

The section of the pharynx that lies above the soft palate. — UBERON

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
ENVIRONMENTS_TABLE	host_animal_endotherm_nasopharyngeal Physicochemical parameter bands from kg-microbe's environment table.	—

Broader habitats

• proximo-distal subdivision of respiratory tract UBERON:0000072

Environmental parameters

Physicochemical parameters

Parameter	Value	Source
GRADIENTS	high	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_animal_endotherm_nasopharyngeal)
NUTRIENTS	medium	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_animal_endotherm_nasopharyngeal)
ORGANIC_MATTER	high	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_animal_endotherm_nasopharyngeal)
PH	medium	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_animal_endotherm_nasopharyngeal)
PRESSURE	low	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_animal_endotherm_nasopharyngeal)
SALINITY_VARIABILITY	small	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_animal_endotherm_nasopharyngeal)
STRUCTURAL_COMPLEXITY	high	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_animal_endotherm_nasopharyngeal)
TEMPERATURE	medium	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_animal_endotherm_nasopharyngeal)
TEMPERATURE_VARIABILITY	low	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_animal_endotherm_nasopharyngeal)
WATER_VARIABILITY	occasionally dry	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_animal_endotherm_nasopharyngeal)

Also called

• Nasenrachenraum — UBERON
• epipharynx — UBERON
• nasal part of pharynx — UBERON
• pars nasalis pharyngis — UBERON
• rhinopharynx — UBERON

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 2026-08-15 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to UBERON:0001728 'nasopharynx' (EXACT). Co-attestor review (#12): the row is 'host_animal_endotherm_nasopharyngeal' and upstream grounds it to UBERON:0000065 'respiratory tract', so bands measured in the nasopharynx were being asserted about the whole tract — the misattribution the multi-term rule exists to prevent. UBERON:0001728 'nasopharynx' is in the slice and is what the row describes. Reported upstream. (source concept habitatmech:ENVIRONMENTS_TABLE.f8725e6e8a)

Provenance

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