tunicate-associated environment
An animal-associated environment which is determined by a tunicate or by a part of a tunicate.
Source attestations
| Source | Label / path | Assertions | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | Host-associated > Tunicates |
23 | ORGANISM |
| GOLD | Host-associated > Invertebrates > Tunicates |
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Broader habitats
- environmental system determined by an organism
ENVO:01001000 - animal-associated environment
ENVO:01001002 - invertebrate-associated environment
habitatmech:GOLD.4d792ac724
Related terms
- tunicate
FOODON:03414466
Also called
- Tunicates
Curation
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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. FOODON:03414466 'tunicate' kept as an xref. Host-taxon reversal (#114): this was NOT_APPLICABLE on the reasoning that 'a host taxon is not a habitat'. That reasoning is wrong, and the corpus already contradicted it — the same kind of concept was treated as a habitat for Sponge, Nematoda, Reptilia, Mammals, Birds and Fish, which keep their own identity and a term request for an <X>-associated environment. Host-associated > Porifera was NOT_APPLICABLE while its own child Porifera > Sponge was a term request.An organism acting as a host IS a habitat: it is where the microbe lives, and ENVO models exactly this at plant-associated, animal-associated and fungi-associated environment. What is not a habitat is the TAXON TERM — a phylum is a class of organisms, not a place — so the taxon stays an xref (#99) and the concept keeps its own identity as a term-request candidate. NOT_APPLICABLE said the concept is not a habitat, which is a stronger and false claim. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.78c645fff9)
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DEFINED
Defined as 'tunicate-associated environment' under ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment'. Definition drafted from the record's deep-research report under research/habitats/ and read against it; the report's proposed wording, genus and near-miss table are the evidence.
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SAME_AS
Merged into habitatmech:GOLD.78c645fff9 'tunicate-associated environment': the same concept under another source's name. Definition research for the zero-assertion Host-associated > Invertebrates > Tunicates record read this GOLD path against the populated Host-associated > Tunicates sibling. The two paths both denote Tunicata acting as hosts; this one has 3 GOLD ecosystem node ids, 0 organisms, 0 studies and 0 biosamples, with no child paths, while habitatmech:GOLD.78c645fff9 carries the 23-organism path and its Ascidians child. Merged onto the already-defined tunicate-associated environment record rather than publishing a second source-specific copy. FOODON:03414466 'tunicate' survives as an xref on the target and remains a taxon/food term rather than a habitat identity (#99, #114). Report read in full; no new paid research was commissioned. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.6afe6868a8)