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Elephantidae

family of mammals
Taxon taxon Q2372824
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Summary

Elephantidae is a taxon[1]. Elephantidae ranks in the top 0.49% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,167 views/month, #951 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Elephantoidea[4]
  • Taxon name: Elephantidae[5]
  • Commons category: Elephantidae[6]
  • Taxonomic type: Elephas[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Elephantidae[8]
  • Commons gallery: Elephantidae[9]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[12], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[13], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[14], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[17]
  • Topic has template: Template:Proboscidea Genera[18]
  • This taxon is source of: elephant ivory[19], elephant meat[20]
  • Heart rate: 30 beats per minute[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]

Body

Identifiers

Elephantidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 43692[23]. Elephantidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9780[24]. Elephantidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1644[25]. Elephantidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 9427[26]. Elephantidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 584935[27].

Why It Matters

Elephantidae has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Elephantidae is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . babel.hathitrust.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . ZooBank. wikidata.org.
  6. [24] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [27] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [25] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [26] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [21] ↑ . Resting Heart Rates. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron +5
    Taxon rank → family
    Instance of → —
    Interlingual index id → i48831
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