Cervidae

family of ruminants (Ruminantia)
Taxon taxon Q23390
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Cervidae

Summary

Cervidae is a taxon[1]. Cervidae ranks in the top 0.074% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,404 views/month, #144 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cervidae's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Cervidae is classified at the rank of family[4].
  • Cervidae belongs to the parent taxon Cervoidea[5].
  • Cervidae is classified within Artiodactyla[6].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Cervidae is Cervidae[7].
  • Cervidae is a type of Placentalia[8].
  • Cervidae is a type of deer[9].
  • Cervidae is used for deer[10].
  • Cervidae's Commons category is recorded as Cervidae[11].
  • Cervidae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Deer[12].
  • Cervidae's Commons gallery is recorded as Cervidae[13].
  • Cervidae's main food source is recorded as Poaceae[14].
  • Cervidae's main food source is recorded as Carex[15].
  • Cervidae's main food source is recorded as forb[16].
  • Cervidae's main food source is recorded as shrub[17].
  • Cervidae's main food source is recorded as tree[18].
  • Cervidae's main food source is recorded as lichen[19].
  • Cervidae's main food source is recorded as shoot[20].
  • Cervidae's main food source is recorded as leaf[21].
  • Cervidae's main food source is recorded as twig[22].
  • Cervidae's main food source is recorded as fungi[23].
  • Cervidae's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[24].
  • Cervidae's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[25].
  • Cervidae's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[26].
  • Cervidae's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[27].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Cervidae is Cervidae[7]. Cervidae is classified at the rank of family[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Cervoidea[5] and Artiodactyla[6]. Cervidae is commonly known as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'hjortefamilien'}[28].

Identifiers

Cervidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9850[29]. Cervidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7685[30]. Cervidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5298[31]. Cervidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180693[32].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Cervidae include Kagoshima[33], a core city of Japan[34], in Japan[35], founded in 1889[36]; Kashima[37], a city of Japan[38], in Japan[39], founded in 1889[40]; Éditions du Cerf[41], a publishing house[42], in France[43], founded in 1929[44], headquartered in Paris[45]; and Menjangan Kecil Island[46], an islet[47], in Indonesia[48].

Why It Matters

Cervidae ranks in the top 0.074% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,404 views/month, #144 of 195,241).[2] Cervidae has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] Cervidae is known by 74 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]

Entities named for Cervidae include Kagoshima[33], a core city of Japan[34], in Japan[35], founded in 1889[36]; Kashima[37], a city of Japan[38], in Japan[39], founded in 1889[40]; Éditions du Cerf[41], a publishing house[42], in France[43], founded in 1929[44], headquartered in Paris[45]; and Menjangan Kecil Island[46], an islet[47], in Indonesia[48].

References

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  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] . Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  10. [29] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [32] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [30] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [31] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  29. [27] . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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  4. [46] . wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  11. [47] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [48] . 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. [49] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [50] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main food source Poaceae, Carex, forb +7
    This taxon is source of antler, buff leather, venison +1
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Has use deer
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 12133, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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