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Frankia

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Taxon taxon Q134931
Frankia
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Frankia

Summary

Frankia is a taxon[1]. Frankia ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (149 views/month, #1,582 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Frankia's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Frankia is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Albert Bernhard Frank is named after Frankia[5].
  • Frankia is classified within Frankiaceae[6].
  • Frankia's scientific name is Frankia[7].
  • The taxonomic type of Frankia is Frankia alni[8].
  • Frankia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Frankia[9].
  • Frankia's LPSN URL is recorded as http://www.bacterio.net/frankia.html[10].
  • Frankia's Gram staining is recorded as gram-positive bacteria[11].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Frankia is Frankia[7]. Frankia is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Frankia belongs to the parent taxon Frankiaceae[6]. The taxonomic type of Frankia is Frankia alni[8].

Discovery and Description

Albert Bernhard Frank is named after Frankia[5].

Identifiers

Frankia's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 334078[12]. Frankia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 1854[13]. Frankia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 100510[14]. Frankia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3225653[15]. Frankia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 957209[16].

Why It Matters

Frankia ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (149 views/month, #1,582 of 195,241).[2] Frankia has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [13] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [16] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [14] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [15] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Frankiaceae
    Taxon rank → genus
    Instance of → taxon
    Named after → Albert Bernhard Frank
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007550755705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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