HabitatMech

salivary gland

BTO:0001203 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

The glands of the oral cavity whose combined secretion constitutes the saliva. — 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 > Digestive system > Oral cavity > Salivary glands	—
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals > Digestive system > Oral cavity > Salivary glands	—
PREGO	salivary gland	6	TAXON

Broader habitats

• exocrine gland BTO:0000765
• Oral cavity habitatmech:GOLD.92d1e65695
• Oral cavity habitatmech:GOLD.99880772e1

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	Corroborated
NCBITaxon:1172985	PREGO	1	6
Asaia platycodi SF2.1 NCBITaxon:1382230	PREGO	2	6
Borrelia hermsii DAH NCBITaxon:314723	PREGO	3	6
NCBITaxon:33706	PREGO	4	6
Proteus mirabilis NCBITaxon:584	PREGO	5	6
NCBITaxon:6945	PREGO	6	6

Also called

• Salivary glands — GOLD
• salivary glandic — PREGO
• salivary glands — PREGO

Curation

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

1. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to BTO:0001203 'salivary gland' (EXACT). 2 GOLD paths share this leaf and differ only in host clade. Merged onto BTO:0001203 deliberately: the structure is the same wherever it sits and the host lives in the taxon, as with feces and blood serum. Each path survives in source_attestations. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.59def3a8cf)

2. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to BTO:0001203 'salivary gland' (EXACT). 2 GOLD paths share this leaf and differ only in host clade. Merged onto BTO:0001203 deliberately: the structure is the same wherever it sits and the host lives in the taxon, as with feces and blood serum. Each path survives in source_attestations. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.98b46ca3f8)

3. 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.928bf05943)

Provenance

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