pineal gland

BTO:0001067 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

A small, cone-shaped organ in the brain of most vertebrates that secretes the hormone melatonin. — BTO

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 > Mammals: Human > Endocrine system > Endocrine gland > Pineal gland/Epiphysis cerebri	—
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals > Endocrine system > Endocrine gland > Pineal gland/Epiphysis cerebri	—

Broader habitats

endocrine gland BTO:0001488
Endocrine gland habitatmech:GOLD.2f5a0b5455
Endocrine gland habitatmech:GOLD.c26b92ece6

Also called

Pineal gland/Epiphysis cerebri — GOLD

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 BTO:0001067 'pineal gland' (EXACT). Slash alternative naming one thing; grounded to the head term. Pulled out of the class-level sweep, whose note wrongly claimed no term matched. Label: 'Pineal gland/Epiphysis cerebri'. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.6eb7b93e44)
GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to BTO:0001067 'pineal gland' (EXACT). Slash alternative naming one thing; grounded to the head term. Pulled out of the class-level sweep, whose note wrongly claimed no term matched. Label: 'Pineal gland/Epiphysis cerebri'. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.83af503d76)

Provenance

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