hammerhead sharks

Summary

hammerhead sharks is a taxon^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.32% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,420 views/month, #620 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• hammerhead sharks's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• hammerhead sharks is classified at the rank of family^[4].
• hammerhead sharks belongs to the parent taxon Carcharhiniformes^[5].
• hammerhead sharks is classified within Carcharhinoidei^[6].
• Under binomial nomenclature, hammerhead sharks is Sphyrnidae^[7].
• hammerhead sharks's Commons category is recorded as Sphyrnidae^[8].
• hammerhead sharks began on -55800000-00-00T00:00:00Z^[9].
• hammerhead sharks's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sphyrnidae^[10].
• hammerhead sharks's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary^[11].
• hammerhead sharks's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[12].
• hammerhead sharks's exact match is recorded as http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/01494475-n^[13].
• hammerhead sharks's exact match is recorded as http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn31/101497220-n^[14].
• hammerhead sharks's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[15].

Body

Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, hammerhead sharks is Sphyrnidae^[7]. It is classified at the rank of family^[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Carcharhiniformes^[5] and Carcharhinoidei^[6].

Identifiers

hammerhead sharks's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 48068^[16]. hammerhead sharks's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 376648^[17]. hammerhead sharks's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1895^[18]. hammerhead sharks's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2207^[19]. hammerhead sharks's ITIS TSN is recorded as 160497^[20].

Discovery and Description

Things named for hammerhead sharks include USS Hammerhead^[21], a nuclear-powered attack submarine^[22].

Why It Matters

hammerhead sharks ranks in the top 0.32% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,420 views/month, #620 of 195,241).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[23] It is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[24]

Entities named for it include USS Hammerhead^[21], a nuclear-powered attack submarine^[22].