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Echeneidae

family of fishes
Taxon taxon Q239771
Echeneidae
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Summary

Echeneidae is a taxon[1]. Echeneidae ranks in the top 0.39% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,360 views/month, #752 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Percoidea[4], Percoidei[5], Carangoidei[6]
  • Taxon name: Echeneidae[7]
  • Commons category: Echeneidae[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Echeneidae[9]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[10]
  • Described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[13]
  • Taxon common name: sugefiskfamilien[14]
  • Different from: Remora[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16]

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Identifiers

Echeneidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 48842[17]. Echeneidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 173245[18]. Echeneidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 5331[19]. Echeneidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 8529[20]. Echeneidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 168567[21].

Why It Matters

Echeneidae has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Echeneidae is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Pisces. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Catalog of Fishes. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [18] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [21] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [19] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [20] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i49222
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 02577282-n
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  2. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ubio id → 114100
    Biblissima authority id → Q292567
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  3. 12w ago · ZorglubAB · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Catalogue of life id → 9JV
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  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Remora
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Taxon rank → family
    Instance of → taxon
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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