white smoker

ENVO:01000257 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT REVIEWED

A hydrothermal vent found on the ocean floor which emits lighter-hued minerals, such as those containing barium, calcium and silicon. These alkaline hydrothermal vents also continuously generate acetyl thioesters, providing both the starting point for more complex organic molecules and the energy needed to produce them. — ENVO

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 > Aquatic > Marine > Hydrothermal vents > White smokers	—

Broader habitats

hydrothermal vent ENVO:00000215
marine hydrothermal vent ENVO:01000122

Also called

White smokers — GOLD

Curation

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

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to ENVO:01000257 'white smoker' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the ENVO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Hydrothermal vents > White smokers (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.d28b62ff00)

Provenance

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