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Ascidiacea

class of marine invertebrate filter feeders
Taxon taxon Q190090
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Ascidiacea

Summary

Ascidiacea is a taxon[1]. Ascidiacea ranks in the top 0.59% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,469 views/month, #1,149 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ascidiacea's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Ascidiacea is classified at the rank of class[4].
  • Ascidiacea is classified within Tunicata[5].
  • Ascidiacea's scientific name is Ascidiacea[6].
  • Ascidiacea's Commons category is recorded as Ascidiacea[7].
  • Ascidiacea began on -520000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • Ascidiacea's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ascidiacea[9].
  • Ascidiacea's code of nomenclature is recorded as International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[10].
  • Ascidiacea's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • Ascidiacea's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • Ascidiacea's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
  • Ascidiacea's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14].
  • Ascidiacea's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[15].
  • Ascidiacea's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[16].
  • Ascidiacea is commonly known as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Ascidie'}[17].
  • Ascidiacea is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Ascidian'}[18].
  • Ascidiacea is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Sea squirt'}[19].
  • Ascidiacea is commonly known as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'sekkdyr'}[20].
  • Ascidiacea is commonly known as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'kozolnjaki'}[21].
  • Ascidiacea's studied by is recorded as ascidiology[22].

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Classification

Ascidiacea's scientific name is Ascidiacea[6]. Ascidiacea is classified at the rank of class[4]. Ascidiacea is classified within Tunicata[5]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Ascidie'}[17], {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Ascidian'}[18], {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Sea squirt'}[19], {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'sekkdyr'}[20], and {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'kozolnjaki'}[21].

Identifiers

Ascidiacea's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47811[23]. Ascidiacea's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7713[24]. Ascidiacea's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46582350[25]. Ascidiacea's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 356[26]. Ascidiacea's ITIS TSN is recorded as 158854[27].

Why It Matters

Ascidiacea ranks in the top 0.59% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,469 views/month, #1,149 of 195,241).[2] Ascidiacea has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Ascidiacea is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [24] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [27] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [26] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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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  1. 16d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Studied by → ascidiology
    Parent taxon → Tunicata
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    Code of nomenclature → International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007295766005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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