Gruidae

family of birds
Taxon taxon Q25365
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Summary

Gruidae is a taxon[1]. Gruidae ranks in the top 0.33% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,533 views/month, #653 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Gruiformes[4]
  • Taxon name: Gruidae[5]
  • Subclass of: water bird[6]
  • Commons category: Gruidae[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Gruidae[8], Q8970386[9]
  • Commons gallery: Gruidae[10]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[11]
  • Described by source: Gujin Tushu Jicheng[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13]
  • Taxon common name: tranefamilien[14]
  • Different from: bird[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16]
  • CITES Appendix: Appendix II of CITES[17]

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Identifiers

Gruidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 23[18]. Gruidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9109[19]. Gruidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7586[20]. Gruidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 9313[21]. Gruidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 176174[22].

Why It Matters

Gruidae has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Gruidae is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

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. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [19] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [22] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [20] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [21] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . 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 · Treisijs · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Q14445616
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Topic has template: Template:Gruidae"
  2. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i45945
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 02015369-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  3. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q292107
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q292107, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  4. 12w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 4728
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish encyclopedia id: 4728, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167477293|CRANE (#167477293)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #mi"
  5. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → ['cranes', 'cranes-birds']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: cranes, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289917767|cranes (#289917767)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
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