pinna

UBERON:0001757 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

The part of the ear that projects from the head, connecting to the external acoustic meatus. — 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 > Mammals: Human > Integumentary system > Skin > Auricle/Pinna	—

Broader habitats

subdivision of head UBERON:0001444
Skin habitatmech:GOLD.4b37ab4b76

Also called

Auricle/Pinna — GOLD
auricle — UBERON
auricle of ear — UBERON
auricle of external ear — UBERON
auricula — UBERON
auricula (auris externa) — UBERON
pinna of ear — UBERON
pinnae — UBERON

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to UBERON:0001757 'pinna' (EXACT). Variant-match review (#12): the seeder grounds on exact labels only, so GOLD's slash and plural conventions hid a term that says exactly this. The pinna is the part of the ear projecting from the head; the path is Human > Integumentary system > Skin. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Integumentary system > Skin > Auricle/Pinna (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.a043efaa03)

Provenance

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