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Acanthurus

genus of fishes
Taxon taxon Q648200
Acanthurus
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Summary

Acanthurus is a taxon[1]. Acanthurus ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (796 views/month, #1,581 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Acanthuridae[4]
  • Taxon name: Acanthurus[5]
  • Commons category: Acanthurus[6]
  • Start time: -55000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Acanthuroid fish[8]

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Identifiers

Acanthurus's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 55382[9]. Acanthurus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 12912[10]. Acanthurus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2379647[11]. Recorded ITIS TSN include 172251[12] and 926622[13].

Why It Matters

Acanthurus has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] Acanthurus is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [12] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Itis tsn → 172251, 926622
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Itis tsn: 926622, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  2. 17d ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'bcl', 'ceb', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr'
    Insects (insecta) of the world id → 227339
    Sitelink count → 33
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Insects (insecta) of the world id: 227339, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/278390|batch #278390]]"
  3. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i49499
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 02624049-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Start time → -55000000-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Parent taxon → Acanthuridae
    Instance of → taxon
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007563916505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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