HabitatMech

Spicules

habitatmech:GOLD.d1e1435f42 ·TERRESTRIAL ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

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 > Terrestrial > Deep subsurface > Cave > Spicules	—

Broader habitats

• Cave habitatmech:GOLD.46abb9a153

Curation

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

1. CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5

   Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Variant-match review (#12): the variant route reaches UBERON:3010830 'spicule', which is animal anatomy. The path is Terrestrial > Deep subsurface > Cave, where a spicule is a mineral speleothem — a homonym across kingdoms of the kind that put Coral on a fish. Path: Environmental > Terrestrial > Deep subsurface > Cave > Spicules (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.d1e1435f42)

Provenance

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