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Geophagus

genus of cichlids that mainly live in South America
Taxon taxon Q1754747
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Summary

Geophagus is a taxon[1]. Geophagus ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (372 views/month, #1,605 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Cichlidae[4]
  • Taxon name: Geophagus[5]
  • Commons category: Geophagus[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Geophagus[7]
  • Different from: geophagy[8]

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Identifiers

Geophagus's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 88478[9]. Geophagus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 13073[10]. Geophagus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2372429[11]. Recorded ITIS TSN include 169914[12], 1092917[13], and 974444[14].

Why It Matters

Geophagus has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] Geophagus is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

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 . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [10] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [12] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [9] ↑ . 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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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Itis tsn → 169914, 1092917, 974444
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Itis tsn: 974444, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  2. 3d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Itis tsn → 169914, 1092917, 974444
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'ca', 'ceb', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fr', 'hu', 'ko', 'lt', 'mrj', 'nl'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Itis tsn: 1092917, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → genus
    Instance of → taxon
    Parent taxon → Cichlidae
    Topic's main category → Category:Geophagus
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007565325605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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