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Cichlidae

family of fishes
Taxon taxon Q3406
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Summary

Cichlidae is a taxon[1]. Cichlidae ranks in the top 0.25% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,937 views/month, #490 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Labroidei[4], Cichliformes[5], Blenniiformes[6]
  • Taxon name: Cichlidae[7]
  • Commons category: Cichlidae[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cichlidae[9]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[10]
  • Taxon common name: ciklidefamilien[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12]

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Identifiers

Cichlidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 54196[13]. Cichlidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8113[14]. Cichlidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 5344[15]. Cichlidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 8522[16]. Cichlidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 169770[17].

Why It Matters

Cichlidae has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] Cichlidae is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Catalog of Fishes. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii). wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [14] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [17] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [15] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [16] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . 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. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2JDTjV
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['h0008954-vrubozubcoviti', 'h0008955-cichlidy']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0008954-vrubozubcoviti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
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