sea cucumber-associated environment
An animal-associated environment which is determined by a sea cucumber, or by a part of a sea cucumber.
Source attestations
| Source | Label / path | Assertions | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | Host-associated > Invertebrates > Echinodermata > Sea cucumber |
17 | ORGANISM |
Broader habitats
- animal-associated environment
ENVO:01001002 - echinoderm-associated environment
habitatmech:GOLD.e1f435d44b
Related terms
- sea cucumber
FOODON:02022154
Also called
- Sea cucumber
Curation
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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. FOODON:02022154 'sea cucumber' kept as an xref. Organism-identity screen (#109): grounded EXACT to FOODON:02022154 'sea cucumber', which is an echinoderm — an organism, not a place. The screen that exists to catch exactly this reported 0 for months because it tested only NCIT and mesh ancestry and only the record's identity; widening it to UBERON:0000468 and to parent_habitats surfaced this family. The GOLD path says host-associated, so the concept is the environment the organism provides, which is the same family as the sponge, nematode and reptile term requests. The organism term is kept as an xref (#99) rather than an identity. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.67b0fd9ee7)
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DEFINED
Defined as 'sea cucumber-associated environment' under ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; no new research was commissioned. Flagged in the sea urchin report months before its own was read, and authored with the echinoderm rung above it rather than alone (#222). This report recommends ENVO:01001002 directly, so no override is needed here. ENVO:01001187 'holothurian digestive tract' and ENVO:01001188 'holothurian digestive tract contents' are in the slice and are deliberately NOT parents: both are organ-scoped and therefore NARROWER than this whole-host concept, and parent_habitats means strictly broader. The record's 17 ORGANISM assertions carry no compartment breakdown upstream, so there is nothing to attach them to. FOODON:02022154 'sea cucumber' stays an xref. Dropped the exact synonym 'holothurian-associated environment' before merge (#229): it was coined at authoring time to mirror the requested label and is attested by no source and proposed by no report - the same construction #213 removed for 'Bivalvia-associated environment'. It passes the guard added there because it does not squash to the requested label, which is why that guard is not sufficient on its own. The GOLD source label is kept.