Home › Entities › taxon › Alcidae

Alcidae

family of birds
Taxon taxon Q28294
Alcidae
Art Sowls, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service · Public Domain · Wikimedia
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

Alcidae is a taxon[1]. Alcidae ranks in the top 0.66% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,255 views/month, #1,295 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Pan-Alcidae[4]
  • Taxon name: Alcidae[5]
  • Subclass of: oceanic seabird[6]
  • Commons category: Alcidae[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Alcidae[8]
  • Commons gallery: Alcidae[9]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[10]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], The New Student's Reference Work[13]
  • Taxon common name: alkefamilien[14]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15]
  • P14541: nXbo9[16]

Body

Identifiers

Alcidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 71295[17]. Alcidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 28683[18]. Alcidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8015[19]. Alcidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2985[20]. Alcidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 176967[21].

Why It Matters

Alcidae has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Alcidae is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . doi.org. Retrieved . doi.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [18] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [21] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [19] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [20] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Alcidae. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/alcidae
MLA “Alcidae.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 15 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/alcidae.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_alcidae_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Alcidae}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/alcidae}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-15}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Alcidae — https://4ort.xyz/entity/alcidae (retrieved 2026-10-15)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/alcidae · Last refreshed:

Edit History

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. 1d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 76
    Harper's tag → auks
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'avk', 'az', 'azb', 'ban', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'ceb', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: auks, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289914484|auks (#289914484)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 25d ago · Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton · 2026-09-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → oceanic seabird
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Subclass of: oceanic seabird, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1790008174057"
  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → nXbo9
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Code of nomenclature → International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
    Local thumb → —
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 10853, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.