HabitatMech

zoea-associated environment

habitatmech:GOLD.8b6557e4f2 ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

An animal-associated environment which is determined by a decapod crustacean larva in a free-swimming zoeal stage before post-larval metamorphosis. — HabitatMech

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
SourceLabel / pathAssertionsUnit
GOLD Host-associated > Arthropoda: Crustaceans > Larva: Zoea
3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.		 —

Broader habitats

Related terms

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Curation

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  1. CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-17 · claude-opus-5

    Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. UBERON:0002548 'larva' kept as an xref. Life-stage review (#112): carried UBERON:0002548 'larva' as a parent, reached by the ambiguous-leaf rule rather than the path — several GOLD paths end in the same leaf, so the ones that do not claim the term keep it as a parent. parent_habitats asserts the parent is BROADER, and a larva or embryo is a whole organism rather than a broader kind of place, so this is the same over-claim the identity cases had one level up. Kept as an xref (#99). Per the rule #114 settled: the whole host organism gets its own identity and an <X>-associated environment term; parts of a host ground to the anatomy term. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.8b6557e4f2)

  2. DEFINED 2026-09-11 · codex-gpt-5

    Defined as 'zoea-associated environment' under ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; no new paid research was commissioned. GOLD's Host-associated > Arthropoda: Crustaceans > Larva: Zoea source denotes the whole zoeal-stage decapod host as a microbial habitat, not the surrounding hatchery water, a dissected gut, the broader unqualified Larva record, or UBERON:0014857 'zoea stage' as a time interval. ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment' is used as the same direct vendored genus as the sibling nauplius-associated environment until crustacean- and larval-crustacean-associated environment classes exist. The Larva: Zoea > Whole body child is a likely SAME_AS candidate for this record and is tracked in #321.

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