Porifera-Sponges

habitatmech:BACDIVE.18f9382d8d ·OTHER ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

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
BACDIVE	Porifera-Sponges Upstream mapping targets a non-habitat ontology (); kept as an xref.	86	STRAIN

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
Rheinheimera sp. `NCBITaxon:1869214`	BACDIVE	1	83
Lacinutrix sp. `NCBITaxon:1937692`	BACDIVE	2	83
Pseudoalteromonas distincta `NCBITaxon:77608`	BACDIVE	3	83
Aquimarina amphilecti `NCBITaxon:1038014`	BACDIVE	4	83
Planococcus plakortidis `NCBITaxon:1038856`	BACDIVE	5	83
Tenacibaculum mesophilum `NCBITaxon:104268`	BACDIVE	6	83
Cobetia amphilecti `NCBITaxon:1055104`	BACDIVE	7	83
Nocardioides marmoraquaticus `NCBITaxon:1087253`	BACDIVE	8	83
Williamsia spongiae `NCBITaxon:1087277`	BACDIVE	9	83
Afifella marina DSM 2698 `NCBITaxon:1120955`	BACDIVE	10	83
Lysobacter spongiicola DSM 21749 `NCBITaxon:1122188`	BACDIVE	11	83
Rubritalea marina DSM 17716 `NCBITaxon:1123070`	BACDIVE	12	83
Rubritalea squalenifaciens DSM 18772 `NCBITaxon:1123071`	BACDIVE	13	83
Endozoicomonas numazuensis `NCBITaxon:1137799`	BACDIVE	14	83
Luteivirga sdotyamensis `NCBITaxon:1182408`	BACDIVE	15	83
Fulvitalea axinellae `NCBITaxon:1182444`	BACDIVE	16	83
Aureivirga marina `NCBITaxon:1182451`	BACDIVE	17	83
Maribacter spongiicola `NCBITaxon:1206753`	BACDIVE	18	83
Maribacter vaceletii `NCBITaxon:1206816`	BACDIVE	19	83
Micromonospora andamanensis `NCBITaxon:1287068`	BACDIVE	20	83
Nocardia xestospongiae `NCBITaxon:1522140`	BACDIVE	21	83
Actinoalloteichus fjordicus `NCBITaxon:1612552`	BACDIVE	22	83
Geodermatophilus marinus `NCBITaxon:1663241`	BACDIVE	23	83
Streptomyces spongiicola `NCBITaxon:1690221`	BACDIVE	24	83
Saccharopolyspora spongiae `NCBITaxon:1847949`	BACDIVE	25	83

Curation

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

CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Host-taxon reversal (#114): this was NOT_APPLICABLE on the reasoning that 'a host taxon is not a habitat'. That reasoning is wrong, and the corpus already contradicted it — the same kind of concept was treated as a habitat for Sponge, Nematoda, Reptilia, Mammals, Birds and Fish, which keep their own identity and a term request for an <X>-associated environment. Host-associated > Porifera was NOT_APPLICABLE while its own child Porifera > Sponge was a term request.An organism acting as a host IS a habitat: it is where the microbe lives, and ENVO models exactly this at plant-associated, animal-associated and fungi-associated environment. What is not a habitat is the TAXON TERM — a phylum is a class of organisms, not a place — so the taxon stays an xref (#99) and the concept keeps its own identity as a term-request candidate. NOT_APPLICABLE said the concept is not a habitat, which is a stronger and false claim. (source concept habitatmech:BACDIVE.18f9382d8d)

Provenance

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