Anguillidae

family of fishes
Taxon taxon Q212239
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Anguillidae

Summary

Anguillidae is a taxon[1]. Anguillidae ranks in the top 0.74% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (760 views/month, #1,450 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Anguillidae's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Anguillidae is classified at the rank of family[4].
  • Anguillidae belongs to the parent taxon Anguilloidei[5].
  • Anguillidae is classified within Anguilliformes[6].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Anguillidae is Anguillidae[7].
  • Anguillidae's Commons category is recorded as Anguillidae[8].
  • Anguillidae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Anguillidae[9].
  • Anguillidae's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • Anguillidae's described by source is recorded as Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste[11].
  • Anguillidae's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[12].
  • Anguillidae is commonly known as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'ålefamilien'}[13].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Anguillidae is Anguillidae[7]. Anguillidae is classified at the rank of family[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Anguilloidei[5] and Anguilliformes[6]. Anguillidae is commonly known as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'ålefamilien'}[13].

Identifiers

Anguillidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 49220[14]. Anguillidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7934[15]. Anguillidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8295[16]. Anguillidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2949[17]. Anguillidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 161125[18].

Why It Matters

Anguillidae ranks in the top 0.74% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (760 views/month, #1,450 of 195,241).[2] Anguillidae has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Anguillidae is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Pisces. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [15] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [18] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [16] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [17] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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