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Crocodile

family of reptiles
Taxon taxon Q43169
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Summary

Crocodile is a taxon[1]. Crocodile ranks in the top 0.046% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15,860 views/month, #89 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Crocodyloidea[4]
  • Taxon name: Crocodylidae[5]
  • Commons category: Crocodylidae[6]
  • Said to be the same as: crocodile[7]
  • Temporal range start: Jurassic[8]
  • Start time: -55000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Crocodylidae[10]

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Identifiers

Crocodile's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 26041[11]. Crocodile's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8493[12]. Crocodile's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1739[13]. Crocodile's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5685[14]. Crocodile's ITIS TSN is recorded as 174359[15].

Why It Matters

Crocodile has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Crocodile is known by 97 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . California. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [15] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . 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.
  3. [17] ↑ . 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. 8d ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 129
    Wikipedia languages → ['ace', 'af', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'arc', 'arz', 'az', 'azb', 'ban', 'bbc',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ add badge sitelink to redirect to iswiki sitelink; see [[Wikidata:Sitelinks to redirects]] for details #msynbotTask10"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Start time → -55000000-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    Parent taxon → Crocodyloidea
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 16748, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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