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common water flea

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common water flea

Summary

common water flea is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.8% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (345 views/month, #1,570 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • common water flea's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • common water flea's instance of is recorded as model organism[4].
  • common water flea is classified at the rank of species[5].
  • common water flea belongs to the parent taxon Daphnia[6].
  • common water flea's scientific name is Daphnia pulex[7].
  • common water flea's Commons category is recorded as Daphnia pulex[8].
  • common water flea's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'D. pulex'}[9].
  • common water flea is commonly known as {'lang': 'cs', 'text': 'hrotnatka obecná'}[10].
  • common water flea is commonly known as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'møkkadamdafnie'}[11].
  • common water flea is commonly known as {'lang': 'ko', 'text': '참물벼룩'}[12].
  • common water flea's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Invasion Biology[13].
  • common water flea's taxon author citation is recorded as Leydig, 1860[14].
  • common water flea's sequenced genome URL is recorded as https://metazoa.ensembl.org/Daphnia_pulex[15].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, common water flea is Daphnia pulex[7]. It is classified at the rank of species[5]. It is classified within Daphnia[6]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'cs', 'text': 'hrotnatka obecná'}[10], {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'møkkadamdafnie'}[11], and {'lang': 'ko', 'text': '참물벼룩'}[12].

Identifiers

common water flea's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 203474[16]. common water flea's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 6669[17]. common water flea's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46498268[18]. common water flea's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2234840[19]. common water flea's ITIS TSN is recorded as 83874[20].

Why It Matters

common water flea ranks in the top 0.8% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (345 views/month, #1,570 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [17] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [20] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [19] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . Portál informačního systému ochrany přírody. Retrieved . portal.nature.cz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [14] ↑ . itis.gov. itis.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [15] ↑ . Ensembl Genomes. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Daphnia
    Instance of → taxon, model organism
    Aliases → —
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Invasion Biology
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