Anseriformes

order of birds
Taxon taxon Q21651
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Summary

Anseriformes is a taxon[1]. Anseriformes ranks in the top 0.54% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,539 views/month, #1,052 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: order[3]
  • Parent taxon: Galloanserae[4], Anserimorphae[5]
  • Taxon name: Anseriformes[6]
  • Commons category: Anseriformes[7]
  • Start time: -71000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Anseriformes[9]
  • Taxon common name: andefugler[10], plojkokljuni[11], lúdalakúak[12]
  • Taxon range: Brazil[13]

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Identifiers

Anseriformes's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 6888[14]. Anseriformes's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8826[15]. Anseriformes's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8024[16]. Anseriformes's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 1108[17]. Anseriformes's ITIS TSN is recorded as 174982[18].

Why It Matters

Anseriformes has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Anseriformes is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [17] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [13] ↑ . 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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  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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