Hippocampus

genus of fishes
Taxon taxon Q74363
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Hippocampus

Summary

Hippocampus is a taxon[1]. Hippocampus ranks in the top 0.15% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,241 views/month, #294 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hippocampus's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Hippocampus is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Hippocampus is classified within Hippocampinae[5].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Hippocampus is Hippocampus[6].
  • Hippocampus's Commons category is recorded as Hippocampus[7].
  • Hippocampus began on -23000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • Hippocampus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Seahorses[9].
  • Hippocampus's Commons gallery is recorded as Seahorse[10].
  • Hippocampus's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • Hippocampus's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[12].
  • Hippocampus's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13].
  • Hippocampus's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14].
  • Hippocampus's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • Hippocampus's different from is recorded as seahorse[16].
  • Hippocampus's different from is recorded as Seepferdchen[17].
  • Hippocampus's different from is recorded as hippocamp[18].
  • Hippocampus's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19].
  • Hippocampus's CITES Appendix is recorded as Appendix II of CITES[20].

Body

Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Hippocampus is Hippocampus[6]. Hippocampus is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Hippocampus belongs to the parent taxon Hippocampinae[5].

Identifiers

Hippocampus's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 54541[21]. Hippocampus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 72046[22]. Hippocampus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46567766[23]. Hippocampus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 8156547[24]. Hippocampus's ITIS TSN is recorded as 166487[25].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Hippocampus include HSwMS Sjöhästen[26], a submarine[27].

Why It Matters

Hippocampus ranks in the top 0.15% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,241 views/month, #294 of 195,241).[2] Hippocampus has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Hippocampus is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Entities named for Hippocampus include HSwMS Sjöhästen[26], a submarine[27].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [22] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [25] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [23] . wikidata.org.
  10. [24] . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [14] . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] . wikidata.org.
  21. [21] . wikidata.org.
  22. [19] . wikidata.org.
  23. [20] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [26] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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