Alligator

genus of large reptiles
Taxon taxon Q530397
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Summary

Alligator is a taxon[1]. Alligator ranks in the top 0.13% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,520 views/month, #259 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Alligatorinae[4]
  • Taxon name: Alligator[5]
  • Subclass of: Reptilia[6]
  • Commons category: Alligator[7]
  • Start time: -37000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Alligator[9]
  • Commons gallery: Alligator[10]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[11], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[12], The New Student's Reference Work[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[14]
  • This taxon is source of: alligator meat[15]
  • Different from: crocodile[16], motorcycle[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]

Body

Identifiers

Alligator's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 26154[19]. Alligator's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8495[20]. Alligator's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 35688[21]. Alligator's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2441367[22]. Alligator's ITIS TSN is recorded as 174366[23].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Alligator include Kamov Ka-52 Alligator[24], an aircraft model[25] and alligator wrestling[26], in United States[27].

Why It Matters

Alligator has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Alligator is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Entities named for Alligator include Kamov Ka-52 Alligator[24], an aircraft model[25] and alligator wrestling[26], in United States[27].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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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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. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → alligators
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: alligators, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289913001|alligators (#289913001)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  2. 15w ago · Caterina Sansone · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bncf thesaurus id → 80444
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Bncf thesaurus id: 80444"
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