Colubridae

family of snakes (Serpentes)
Taxon taxon Q182751
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Summary

Colubridae is a taxon[1]. Colubridae ranks in the top 0.51% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,635 views/month, #987 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Colubroidea[4]
  • Taxon name: Colubridae[5]
  • Commons category: Colubridae[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Colubridae[7]
  • Commons gallery: Colubridae[8]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[9]
  • Described by source: Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[10], Otto's encyclopedia[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12]
  • Taxon common name: snoker[13], Nattern[14], Ужеобразные[15], goži[16], połozowate[17], snokar[18]

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Identifiers

Recorded iNaturalist taxon ID include 26504[19] and 145830[20]. Colubridae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8578[21]. Colubridae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1722[22]. Colubridae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 6172[23]. Colubridae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 174121[24].

Why It Matters

Colubridae has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Colubridae is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [21] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [24] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [22] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [23] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · PieterJanR · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inaturalist taxon id → 26504, 145830
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Inaturalist taxon id: 145830"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0342053-uzovkoviti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0342053-uzovkoviti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    Code of nomenclature → International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
    Instance of → taxon
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 28090, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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