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Alces

genus of mammals
Class type of: large game Q10731891

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
taxon
Subclass of
large game[6]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[8][9][10]
Different from
Alces[19]
Parent taxon
Capreolini, Alceini[3][4]
Taxon common name
Elk, Elch, Ant, Άλκη, Moose, Alko, 駝鹿屬, los[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Taxon name
Alces[5]
Taxon rank
genus[2]
Taxonomic type
Cervus alces[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Elk en Alces en Moose cs los de Elch fr Orignal fr Élan he מוס he אייל גדול he אייל קורא ja ヘラジカ属 pl łoś ru Alces ru Лоси sv Alces sv älgar uk Alces uk Лось zh 驼鹿属
🔖 Identifiers · 35
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Moose superior.jpg ↗
ADW taxon ID
Alces
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300310444
BOLD Systems taxon ID
7442
Biblissima authority ID
Nedda Casei
Catalogue of Life ID
RKW
Dyntaxa ID
1001660
EPPO Code
1ALCSG
Encyclopedia of Life ID
42400
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
elan-orignal
Fauna Europaea ID
305252
Fauna Europaea New ID
e55b74c2-8898-4d6f-b27a-fcd9921a804e
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Fossiilid.info ID
1468
Fossilworks taxon ID
42653
GBIF taxon ID
7816758
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/1q6jdzn_v
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2158728
INaturalist taxon ID
42196
IRMNG ID
1419226
ITIS TSN
180702
Interlingual Index ID
i48423
MSW ID
14200207
NBIC scientific name ID
48102
NCBI taxonomy ID
9851
NL CR AUT ID
ph717513
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
taxon/DAFA4F71-A662-46C6-B150-37DF1027A186
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007561067405171
New Zealand Organisms Register ID
50695267-fdef-43db-9c5b-e68232d7999d
Open Tree of Life ID
460507
Paleobiology Database taxon ID
42653
Topic's main category
Category:Alces
UBio ID
5501931
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
02435513-n
Yale LUX ID
concept/eba84783-9c28-4ac5-bcc9-caf5a4806b89
ZooBank ID for name or act
9CCF4BE6-84A2-4A4D-BA04-4288086251FB

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🔗 Connections
Parent taxon 2
Capreolini, Alceini
← Parent taxon 2
moose, Eastern moose
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Instance of 1
taxon
Named after 1
Älgarna-Härnösand IF
Taxon rank 1
genus
Topic's main category 1
Category:Alces
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Category:Alces
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Summary

Alces is a taxon[1].

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Discovery and Description

Things named for Alces include Älgarna-Härnösand IF[20], an association football club[21], in Sweden[22], founded in 1919[23], headquartered in Härnösand[24].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Alces include Älgarna-Härnösand IF[20], an association football club[21], in Sweden[22], founded in 1919[23], headquartered in Härnösand[24].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . babel.hathitrust.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . biomodel.info. biomodel.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . Q140332069. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual Index ID → i48423
    WordNet 3.1 Synset ID → 02435513-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  2. 14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Nedda Casei
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q292521, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  3. 17w ago · TadejM · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon common name → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Elk'}, {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Elch'}, {'lang': 'ca', 'text': 'Ant'} +5
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Taxon common name: los"
  4. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Alces
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → large game
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007561067405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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