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Gerridae

family of insects
Taxon taxon Q270322
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Summary

Gerridae is a taxon[1]. Gerridae ranks in the top 0.62% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,183 views/month, #1,218 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Gerroidea[4]
  • Taxon name: Gerridae[5]
  • Commons category: Gerridae[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Gerridae[7]
  • Described by source: Gujin Tushu Jicheng[8], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9]
  • Taxon common name: Water Striders[10], vannløpere[11], vodni drsalci[12], schaatsenrijders[13], водомерки[14]
  • Different from: Gerreidae[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16]

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Identifiers

Gerridae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 59653[17]. Gerridae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 36161[18]. Gerridae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 588[19]. Gerridae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 7881[20]. Gerridae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 103801[21].

Why It Matters

Gerridae has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Gerridae is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

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. [18] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [21] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [19] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [20] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . BugGuide. wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . 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. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i49584
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 02639296-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  2. 21w ago · Njardarlogar · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Water strider G remigis.jpg
    Described by source → Gujin Tushu Jicheng, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Image: Gerris by webrunner.JPG"
  3. 22w ago · Schekinov Alexey Victorovich · 2026-05-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Gerridae
    Instance of → taxon
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 1922029
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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