Crocodilia

order of large reptiles
Taxon taxon Q25363
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Summary

Crocodilia is a taxon[1]. Crocodilia ranks in the top 0.16% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16,946 views/month, #308 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Zootier des Jahres[3]
  • Taxon rank: order[4]
  • Parent taxon: Eusuchia[5]
  • Taxon name: Crocodilia[6]
  • Subclass of: archosaur[7]
  • Commons category: Crocodilia[8]
  • Start time: -83500000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Crocodilia[10]
  • Commons gallery: Crocodilia[11]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[12]
  • Described by source: Nordisk familjebok[13], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[14], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[15], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[18], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[19], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[20]
  • Topic has template: Template:Crocodilia[21]
  • This taxon is source of: crocodile skin[22]
  • Taxon common name: ekte krokodiller[23], krokodili[24], crocodilios[25]
  • CITES Appendix: Appendix II of CITES[26]

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Identifiers

Crocodilia's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 26039[27]. Crocodilia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 1294634[28]. Crocodilia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1738[29]. Crocodilia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 704[30]. Recorded ITIS TSN include 551734[31] and 174358[32].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Crocodilia include crocodile tears[33], a redewendung[34].

Why It Matters

Crocodilia has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] Crocodilia is known by 99 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for Crocodilia include crocodile tears[33], a redewendung[34].

FAQs

What awards did Crocodilia receive?

Honors received include Zootier des Jahres[3].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [31] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  25. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [23] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Itis tsn → 551734, 174358
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 8d ago · AMartinios · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 113
    Subclass of → archosaur
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'ban', 'bdr', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'b
    Wikipedia title → Crocodylia
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: archosaur"
  3. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 01698923-n
    Interlingual index id → i44221
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  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0271021-krokodyli
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0271021-krokodyli, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Template:Crocodilia
    Instance of → —
    Described by source → Nordisk familjebok, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language +6
    Award received → Zootier des Jahres
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007533417005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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