uropygial gland

UBERON:0007802 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

A large gland at the base of a bird's tail dorsal to the cloaca at the end of the pygostyle that secretes an oil used in preening. It opens through a caudally directed nipple. — UBERON

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 > Birds > Integumentary system > Uropygial/Preen gland 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	3	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

exocrine gland UBERON:0002365
Integumentary system habitatmech:GOLD.968051b240

Also called

Uropygial/Preen gland — GOLD
oil gland — UBERON
preen gland — UBERON
preen oil gland — UBERON

Curation

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

GROUND 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to UBERON:0007802 'uropygial gland' (EXACT). Variant-match review (#12): the seeder grounds on exact labels only, so GOLD's slash and plural conventions hid a term that says exactly this. The preen gland at the base of a bird's tail; the path is Birds > Integumentary system. Path: Host-associated > Birds > Integumentary system > Uropygial/Preen gland (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.853d321f4a)

Provenance

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