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Alcyonacea

order of cnidarians
Taxon taxon Q137552
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Alcyonacea

Summary

Alcyonacea is a taxon[1]. Alcyonacea ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (62 views/month, #1,583 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Alcyonacea's image is recorded as Muricea elongata.jpg[3].
  • Alcyonacea's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Alcyonacea's taxon rank is recorded as order[5].
  • Alcyonacea's parent taxon is recorded as Octocorallia[6].
  • Alcyonacea's taxon name is recorded as Alcyonacea[7].
  • Alcyonacea's Commons category is recorded as Alcyonacea[8].
  • Alcyonacea's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0f_ffg[9].
  • Alcyonacea's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 40677[10].
  • Alcyonacea's ITIS TSN is recorded as 52016[11].
  • Alcyonacea's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46545575[12].
  • Alcyonacea's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 4748[13].
  • Alcyonacea's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 1437[14].
  • Alcyonacea's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 1365[15].
  • Alcyonacea's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Alcyonacea[16].
  • Alcyonacea's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/Alcyonacea[17].
  • Alcyonacea's taxon synonym is recorded as Gorgonacea[18].
  • Alcyonacea's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Weichkorallen'}[19].
  • Alcyonacea's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Soft corals'}[20].
  • Alcyonacea's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'Pehmytkorallit'}[21].
  • Alcyonacea's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'hu', 'text': 'Szarukorallok'}[22].
  • Alcyonacea's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': 'ウミトサカ目'}[23].
  • Alcyonacea's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '軟珊瑚'}[24].
  • Alcyonacea's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'bløtkoraller'}[25].
  • Alcyonacea's Dyntaxa ID is recorded as 3000023[26].
  • Alcyonacea's Plazi ID is recorded as FD0387A1-3419-FF96-FF18-FE8FB5FAFE60[27].

Why It Matters

Alcyonacea ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (62 views/month, #1,583 of 195,241).[2] Alcyonacea has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Alcyonacea is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . marinespecies.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Dyntaxa. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Plazi. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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