Cervidae

family of ruminants (Ruminantia)
Taxon taxon Q23390
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Summary

Cervidae is a taxon[1]. Cervidae ranks in the top 0.074% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (43,363 views/month, #144 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Cervoidea[4], Artiodactyla[5]
  • Taxon name: Cervidae[6]
  • Subclass of: Placentalia[7], deer[8]
  • Has use: deer[9]
  • Commons category: Cervidae[10]
  • Temporal range start: Oligocene[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Deer[12]
  • Commons gallery: Cervidae[13]
  • Main food source: Poaceae[14], Carex[15], forb[16], shrub[17], tree[18], lichen[19], shoot[20], leaf[21], twig[22], fungi[23]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[24], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[25], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[26], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[27], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[28], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[29], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[30], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[31], The Encyclopedia Americana[32], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[33], Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[34], The New Student's Reference Work[35], Pauly–Wissowa[36]
  • Topic has template: Q25720523[37]
  • This taxon is source of: antler[38], buff leather[39], venison[40], deer liver[41], Q139172093[42], deer fat[43]
  • Taxon common name: hjortefamilien[44]

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Identifiers

Cervidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9850[45]. Cervidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7685[46]. Cervidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5298[47]. Cervidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180693[48].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Cervidae include Kagoshima[49], a core city of Japan[50], in Japan[51], founded in 1889[52]; Kashima[53], a city of Japan[54], in Japan[55], founded in 1889[56]; Éditions du Cerf[57], a publishing house[58], in France[59], founded in 1929[60], headquartered in Paris[61]; and Menjangan Kecil Island[62], an islet[63], in Indonesia[64].

Why It Matters

Cervidae has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[65] Cervidae is known by 100 alternative names across languages and contexts.[66]

Entities named for Cervidae include Kagoshima[49], a core city of Japan[50], in Japan[51], founded in 1889[52]; Kashima[53], a city of Japan[54], in Japan[55], founded in 1889[56]; Éditions du Cerf[57], a publishing house[58], in France[59], founded in 1929[60], headquartered in Paris[61]; and Menjangan Kecil Island[62], an islet[63], in Indonesia[64].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  10. [45] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [48] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [46] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [47] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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Inline context (facts about related entities)

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  12. [64] ↑ . 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. [65] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [66] ↑ . 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. 11d ago · Yupik · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Anarâš aavis topic id → sorvaelleeh
    Wikipedia languages → ['ace', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'atj', 'av', 'avk',
    Sitelink count → 170
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Anarâš aavis topic id: sorvaelleeh"
  2. 10w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Salzburgwiki id → 196287
    Verbaalpina id → C2909
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C2909, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  3. 13w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q292276, Q292575, Michael Robertson
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-add:1||3 */ Biblissima authority id, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  4. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → deer
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: deer, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289919149|deer (#289919149)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  5. 19w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001890-jelenoviti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001890-jelenoviti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  6. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main food source → Poaceae, Carex, forb +7
    This taxon is source of → antler, buff leather, venison +3
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Has use → deer
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 12133, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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