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Elops

genus of fishes
Taxon taxon Q909535
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Elops

Summary

Elops is a taxon[1]. Elops ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (209 views/month, #1,600 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Elops's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Elops is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Elops belongs to the parent taxon Elopidae[5].
  • Elops's scientific name is Elops[6].
  • Elops's Commons category is recorded as Elops[7].
  • Elops's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Elopidae[8].
  • Elops's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Elops[9].

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Classification

Elops's scientific name is Elops[6]. Elops is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Elops belongs to the parent taxon Elopidae[5].

Identifiers

Elops's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 51421[10]. Elops's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7927[11]. Elops's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46561203[12]. Elops's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2346674[13]. Elops's ITIS TSN is recorded as 161110[14].

Why It Matters

Elops ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (209 views/month, #1,600 of 195,241).[2] Elops has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] Elops is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [11] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [14] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Elopidae
    Instance of → taxon
    Aliases → —
    Taxon rank → genus
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007540953405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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