protist-associated environment

habitatmech:GOLD.eee7408afd ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

An environmental system which is determined by a unicellular, colonial, or structurally simple eukaryotic organism that is neither an animal, a land plant, nor a fungus. — HabitatMech

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.

Broader habitats

• environmental system determined by an organism ENVO:01001000

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.

Related terms

Terms a source linked to this concept without this record claiming to be one of them, or to be narrower than one. A cross-reference, not a grounding.

• ProtistaNCIT:C77914

Also called

• Protist — BacDive
• Protists — HabitatMech curation

Curation

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

1. SAME_AS 2026-09-10 · codex-gpt-5

   Merged into habitatmech:GOLD.eee7408afd 'Protists': the same concept under another source's name. Protist-definition pass (#110): the committed BacDive report confirms that BacDive's Protist bucket denotes the same host-as-protist habitat as GOLD's Host-associated > Protists node. Keeping both would publish two term requests for one protist-associated environment, while merging onto GOLD preserves BacDive's strains as a distinct source attestation under the higher-volume explicit host-associated source concept. The pre-merge BacDive xref to NCIT:C77914 is intentionally carried by the GOLD survivor. (source concept habitatmech:BACDIVE.a7f6b12719)

2. CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-09-10 · codex-gpt-5

   Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. NCIT:C77914 'Protista' kept as an xref. Protist-definition pass (#110): GOLD's Host-associated > Protists source denotes protists acting as microbial hosts. ENVO has no protist-associated child of ENVO:01001000 'environmental system determined by an organism' to ground to, and NCIT:C77914 'Protista' is a legacy taxon rather than a habitat identity, so it is retained only as an xref. The GOLD source is the merge survivor because it contributes an explicit Host-associated path and 40 organism assertions. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.eee7408afd)

3. DEFINED 2026-09-10 · codex-gpt-5

   Defined as 'protist-associated environment' under ENVO:01001000 'environmental system determined by an organism'. Definition authored from the BacDive Protist committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; no new paid research was commissioned. GOLD's Host-associated > Protists node is the surviving identity because it has the higher-volume explicit host-associated path; BacDive's Protist bucket was merged into it with SAME_AS. ENVO:01001000 is the tightest vendored genus because ENVO lacks a protist-associated child alongside plant-, animal-, and fungi-associated environment. NCIT:C77914 'Protista' remains an xref because it is a legacy taxon, not a habitat, and the definition excludes amoebal co-culture cases where a protist is used as laboratory isolation apparatus rather than functioning as the sampled natural host.

Provenance

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