Cephalopod

class of mollusks
Taxon taxon Q128257
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Summary

Cephalopod is a taxon[1]. Cephalopod ranks in the top 0.15% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,426 views/month, #285 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: class[3]
  • Parent taxon: Conchifera[4]
  • Taxon name: Cephalopoda[5]
  • Commons category: Cephalopoda[6]
  • Temporal range start: Terreneuvian[7]
  • Inception: -400000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cephalopods[9]
  • Described by source: Nordisk familjebok[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[16], Otto's encyclopedia[17], Pauly–Wissowa[18]
  • Taxon common name: Kopffüßer[19], Κεφαλόποδα[20], Cephalopods[21], Pääjalkaiset[22], Céphalopodes[23], Glavonošci[24], Fejlábúak / Lábasfejűek[25], 頭足綱[26], Inktvis[27], Głowonogi[28], Cefalópodes[29], Головоногі[30], Inktvissen[31], галаваногія[32]
  • Studied by: teuthology[33]
  • Means of locomotion: siphon[34]

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Identifiers

Cephalopod's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47459[35]. Cephalopod's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 6605[36]. Cephalopod's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 2312[37]. Cephalopod's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 136[38]. Cephalopod's ITIS TSN is recorded as 82326[39].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Cephalopod include Ceph[40], a free software[41].

Why It Matters

Cephalopod has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] Cephalopod is known by 94 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]

Entities named for Cephalopod include Ceph[40], a free software[41].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Fossilworks. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [36] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [39] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [37] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [38] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Trivialnamen für Mollusken des Meeres und Brackwassers in Deutschland (Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Scaphopoda et Cephalopoda). wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [31] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  34. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [43] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 12d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 91
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'ceb
    Foodon id → 03412116
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Foodon id: 03412116, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/180474681|cephalopod (#180474681)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5485|FoodOn ID]] #mix'n'm"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3OjfGc, 2ri5fD, 2s7go4
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0227078-hlavonozci
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0227078-hlavonozci, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → class
    Means of locomotion → siphon
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2367477
    Aliases → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 8681, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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