Sponge

habitatmech:GOLD.affd2445ea ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·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	Host-associated > Porifera > Sponge 3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	323	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

animal-associated environment ENVO:01001002
Porifera habitatmech:GOLD.64acf9132c

Curation

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

CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Nearest broader term ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment' attached as a parent. Sponges as host. ENVO:01000161 marine sponge reef is the reef environment, not the sponge as a host, so it is not a substitute. Parented to animal-associated environment. ENVO term request. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.affd2445ea)

Provenance

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