Amphibia
class of tetrapods, whose living forms include frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians
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Summary
Amphibia is a taxon[1]. Amphibia ranks in the top 0.16% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,064 views/month, #321 of 195,241).[2]
Key Facts
- Taxon rank: class[3]
- Parent taxon: Batrachomorpha[4]
- Taxon name: Amphibia[5]
- Subclass of: Tetrapoda[6]
- Has use: biological pest control[7]
- Commons category: Amphibia[8]
- Temporal range start: Mississippian[9]
- Start time: -370000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[10]
- Topic's main category: Category:Amphibians[11], Category:Gallery pages about amphibia[12]
- Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[13]
- Main food source: insect[14], Isopoda[15], worm[16], Arachnida[17], Gastropoda[18]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Amphibians[19]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Encyclopedic Lexicon[22], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[24], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[25], The New Student's Reference Work[26], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[27]
- Topic has template: Template:Amphibians[28]
- This taxon is source of: amphibian as food[29]
- Equivalent class: http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#Amphibian[30]
- Taxon common name: البَرْمائِيَّات[31], Земнаводныя[32], Земноводни[33], Divelfenneg[34], Amfibis[35], obojživelníci[36], Amphibien[37], Αμφίβια[38], Amphibians[39], Anfibios[40], Sammakkoeläimet[41], Amphibiens[42], Amfiibie[43], anfíbios[44]
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Identifiers
Amphibia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8292[45]. Amphibia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1552[46]. Amphibia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 131[47]. Amphibia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 173420[48].
Why It Matters
Amphibia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] Amphibia is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]