A small rigid plate that grows out of an animal's skin to provide protection. In lepidopteran (butterfly and moth) species, scales are plates on the surface of the insect wing, and provide coloration. Scales are quite common and have evolved multiple times with varying structure and function. — UBERON
Machine-generated and unreviewed. Its grounding comes
from the seeder's rules, not from a curator.
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 > Integumentary system > Scales 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.
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GOLD
Host-associated > Fish > Integumentary system > Scale 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.