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Foraminifera

subphylum of amoeboid protists
Taxon taxon Q107027
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Summary

Foraminifera is a taxon[1]. Foraminifera ranks in the top 0.63% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,140 views/month, #1,230 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: subphylum[3]
  • Parent taxon: Rhizaria[4]
  • Taxon name: Foraminifera[5]
  • Commons category: Foraminifera[6]
  • Start time: -542000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Foraminifera[8]
  • Commons gallery: Foraminifera[9]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[10]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12]
  • Taxon common name: Foraminiferen[13], Kammerlinge[14], पादछिद्र[15], Delikliler[16]

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Identifiers

Foraminifera's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 348288[17]. Foraminifera's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 29178[18]. Foraminifera's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4888[19]. Foraminifera's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 8376456[20].

Why It Matters

Foraminifera has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Foraminifera is known by 76 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [18] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [19] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3N6awP
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  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004914-dirkonosci
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  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Start time → -542000000-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Taxon rank → subphylum
    Instance of → —
    Parent taxon → Rhizaria
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