Chikungunya virus

virus that causes the Chikungunya fever
Taxon taxon Q15794049
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Chikungunya virus

Summary

Chikungunya virus is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (42 views/month, #1,612 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Chikungunya virus's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Chikungunya virus is classified at the rank of species[4].
  • Chikungunya virus is classified within Alphavirus[5].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Chikungunya virus is Chikungunya virus[6].
  • Chikungunya virus's Commons category is recorded as Chikungunya[7].
  • Chikungunya virus's has effect is recorded as chikungunya[8].
  • Chikungunya virus's ICTV virus genome composition is recorded as positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus[9].
  • Chikungunya virus's ICTV virus genome composition is recorded as positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus[10].
  • Chikungunya virus's ICTV virus genome composition is recorded as positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus[11].
  • Chikungunya virus's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Zika Corpus[12].
  • Chikungunya virus's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Invasion Biology[13].

Body

Classification

Chikungunya virus's scientific name is Chikungunya virus[6]. It is classified at the rank of species[4]. It belongs to the parent taxon Alphavirus[5].

Identifiers

Chikungunya virus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 37124[14]. Chikungunya virus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 539963[15].

Why It Matters

Chikungunya virus ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (42 views/month, #1,612 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . ICTV Master Species List 2013 v2. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . ICTV Master Species List 2013 v2. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . ICTV Master Species List 2013 v2. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [14] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [15] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] . ICTV Master Species List 2016 v1.3. wikidata.org.
  10. [10] . ICTV Master Species List 2019.v1. wikidata.org.
  11. [11] . ICTV Master Species List 2020.v1. wikidata.org.
  12. [12] . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    On focus list of wikimedia project WikiProject Zika Corpus
    Parent taxon Alphavirus
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