saline evaporation pond

ENVO:00000055 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT REVIEWED

A pond which is 1) shallow, 2) man-made, and 3) designed to produce salt from seawater through evaporation. — ENVO

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	Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Intertidal zone > Salt pond	10	ORGANISM
PREGO	saline evaporation pond	8	TAXON

Broader habitats

pond ENVO:00000033
Intertidal zone habitatmech:GOLD.115edc36f8

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
Desulfobaculum senezii DSM 8436 `NCBITaxon:1121463`	PREGO	1	8
Modicisalibacter ilicicola DSM 19980 `NCBITaxon:1121942`	PREGO	2	8
Salinimonas chungwhensis DSM 16280 `NCBITaxon:1123236`	PREGO	3	8
Pontibacillus marinus BH030004 = DSM 16465 `NCBITaxon:1385511`	PREGO	4	8
Kushneria indalinina `NCBITaxon:184067`	PREGO	5	8
Candidatus Chlorotrichoides halophilum `NCBITaxon:257501`	PREGO	6	8
Chromohalobacter israelensis DSM 3043 `NCBITaxon:290398`	PREGO	7	8
Halogeometricum borinquense DSM 11551 `NCBITaxon:469382`	PREGO	8	8

Also called

Salt pond — GOLD
lake — ENVO
saline evaporation ponds — PREGO
salt evaporation pond — ENVO
salt evaporation pond — PREGO
salt evaporation ponds — PREGO
salt pond — ENVO
salt pond — PREGO
salt ponds — ENVO
salt ponds — PREGO
salt pondses — PREGO
saltern — ENVO
saltern — PREGO
salterns — PREGO

Curation

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

REVIEW 2026-08-13 · claude-opus-5
Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. Multi-source review pass: this record is attested by more than one independent vocabulary, and this source's label or path was read against the record's ontology term to check the merge is right. It agrees. Source concepts in the same pass whose labels did not agree were re-decided rather than endorsed; see the pass's other decisions of the same date. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.dc339d2180)
REVIEW 2026-08-13 · claude-opus-5
Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. Multi-source review pass: this record is attested by more than one independent vocabulary, and this source's label or path was read against the record's ontology term to check the merge is right. It agrees. Source concepts in the same pass whose labels did not agree were re-decided rather than endorsed; see the pass's other decisions of the same date. (source concept habitatmech:PREGO.2a96f3bb8b)

Provenance

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