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arthropod

phylum of animals
Taxon taxon Q1360
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Summary

arthropod is a taxon[1]. arthropod ranks in the top 0.026% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (32,453 views/month, #50 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: phylum[3]
  • Parent taxon: Ecdysozoa[4], Panarthropoda[5], Tactopoda[6]
  • Taxon name: Arthropoda[7]
  • Subclass of: invertebrate[8]
  • Commons category: Arthropoda[9]
  • Unicode character: 🐛[10]
  • Start time: -540000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Arthropods[12], Category:Arthropoda[13]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Arthropods[14]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18], The Encyclopedia Americana[19], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[20], New International Encyclopedia[21], The New Student's Reference Work[22], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[23], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[24], Otto's encyclopedia[25], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[26]
  • Topic has template: Template:Arthropods[27]
  • Taxon common name: 节肢动物门[28], Gliderfießler[29], Gliaderfiassler[30], Членестоноги[31], সন্ধিপদ[32], Artròpodes[33], členovci[34], Leddyr[35], Gliederfüßer[36], Αρθρόποδα[37], Arthropod[38], Artrópodos[39], Lülijalgsed[40], Niveljalkaiset[41]

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Identifiers

arthropod's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 6656[42]. arthropod's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 164[43]. arthropod's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 54[44]. arthropod's ITIS TSN is recorded as 82696[45].

Why It Matters

arthropod has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] arthropod is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

Related Entities

Montenegro

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . A higher level classification of all living organisms. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [42] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [45] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [43] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  32. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  34. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 7w ago · PieterJanR · 2026-08-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Catalogue of life id → RT
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Catalogue of life id: RT"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3Gbp9V
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004728-clenovci
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004728-clenovci, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  4. 22w ago · Monster Iestyn · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Ecdysozoa, Panarthropoda, Tactopoda
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Parent taxon: Antennopoda"
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