HabitatMech

sebaceous gland

BTO:0001980 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

Any of various glands in the dermis of the skin that open into a hair follicle and produce and secrete sebum. — 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 > Integumentary system > Sebaceous glands 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals > Integumentary system > Sebaceous glands	—
PREGO	sebaceous gland	6	TAXON

Broader habitats

• exocrine gland BTO:0000765
• Integumentary system habitatmech:GOLD.56e0776270
• Integumentary system habitatmech:GOLD.dc86c8917c

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
Cutibacterium granulosum DSM 20700 NCBITaxon:1160719	PREGO	1	6
Cutibacterium acnes C1 NCBITaxon:1234380	PREGO	2	6
Cutibacterium acnes PA2 NCBITaxon:1292038	PREGO	3	6
Cutibacterium acnes P6 NCBITaxon:1292039	PREGO	4	6
Cutibacterium avidum TM16 NCBITaxon:1292372	PREGO	5	6
Cutibacterium acnes KPA171202 NCBITaxon:267747	PREGO	6	6

Also called

• Sebaceous glands — GOLD
• glandula sebaceae — PREGO
• glandula sebaceaes — PREGO
• sebaceous folliclar — PREGO
• sebaceous follicle — PREGO
• sebaceous follicles — PREGO
• sebaceous glandic — PREGO
• sebaceous 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:0001980 'sebaceous gland' (EXACT). 2 GOLD paths share this leaf and differ only in host clade. Merged onto BTO:0001980 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.9ee39717a3)

2. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to BTO:0001980 'sebaceous gland' (EXACT). 2 GOLD paths share this leaf and differ only in host clade. Merged onto BTO:0001980 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.d3fe1f30fc)

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.16f63a6821)

Provenance

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