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Homo floresiensis

extinct species of hominid
Taxon fossil_taxon Q186266
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Summary

Homo floresiensis is a fossil taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.25% of fossil taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,821 views/month, #24 of 9,701).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • Named after: Flores Island[4]
  • Parent taxon: Homo[5]
  • Taxon name: Homo floresiensis[6]
  • Commons category: Homo floresiensis[7]
  • Taxonomic type: LB1[8]
  • Start time: -190000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9]
  • End time: -50000-00-00T00:00:00Z[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Homo floresiensis[11]
  • Short name: H. floresiensis[12]
  • Time period: Pleistocene[13]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology[14]
  • Taxon author citation: Brown et al., 2004[15]

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Identifiers

Homo floresiensis's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 460371[16]. Homo floresiensis's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4454117[17]. Homo floresiensis's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4827627[18].

Why It Matters

Homo floresiensis has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Flores Island

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [17] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [18] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 17d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'br', 'bs', 'ca', 'ce', 'ceb', 'ckb', 'cs'
    Gnd id → 1106891848
    Sitelink count → 66
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 13w ago · 高晶 · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon author citation → Brown et al., 2004
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Taxon author citation: Brown et al., 2004"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Homo
    Start time → —
    Taxon rank → species
    Instance of → fossil taxon
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007545197405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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