HabitatMech

oral cavity

UBERON:0000167 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT SEEDED

Anatomical cavity at the start of the digestive tract that that is enclosed by the mouth. The boundaries and contents vary depending on the species. In vertebrates, the boundaries are the oral opening, the cheeks, the palate and (if present) the palatoglossal arch - if this is not present then the mouth and pharynx form the oropharyngeal cavity. The buccal cavity contains the teeth, tongue and palate (when present). — 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
GOLD	Host-associated > Fish > Digestive system > Oral/Buccal cavity 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	1	ORGANISM
GOLD	Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Digestive system > Foregut > Buccal cavity	—
GOLD	Host-associated > Birds > Digestive system > Oral/Buccal cavity 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	1	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

• anatomical cavity UBERON:0002553
• Digestive system habitatmech:GOLD.8a68d0f6f5
• Foregut habitatmech:GOLD.bd1664969c
• Digestive system habitatmech:GOLD.fb6caa2908

Also called

• Buccal cavity — GOLD
• Oral/Buccal cavity — GOLD
• bucca — UBERON
• buccal cavity — UBERON
• cavity of mouth — 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 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to UBERON:0000167 'oral cavity' (EXACT). Slash alternative; buccal cavity is a synonym of oral cavity. Path: Host-associated > Birds > Digestive system > Oral/Buccal cavity (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.0e1023f291)

2. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to UBERON:0000167 'oral cavity' (EXACT). Slash alternative; buccal cavity is a synonym of oral cavity. Path: Host-associated > Fish > Digestive system > Oral/Buccal cavity (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.703314058c)

Provenance

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