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Leishmania

genus of protozoan parasites
Taxon taxon Q524818
Leishmania
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Leishmania

Summary

Leishmania is a taxon[1]. Leishmania ranks in the top 0.73% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (784 views/month, #1,417 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Leishmania's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Leishmania is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • William Boog Leishman is named after Leishmania[5].
  • Leishmania is classified within Leishmaniinae[6].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Leishmania is Leishmania[7].
  • Leishmania's Commons category is recorded as Leishmania[8].
  • Leishmania's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • Leishmania's AlgaeBase URL is recorded as https://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=52365[10].
  • Leishmania's has effect is recorded as leishmaniasis[11].
  • Leishmania's has natural reservoir is recorded as Psammomys obesus[12].
  • Leishmania's has natural reservoir is recorded as Hyrax[13].
  • Leishmania's has natural reservoir is recorded as Rodentia[14].
  • Leishmania's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Invasion Biology[15].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Leishmania is Leishmania[7]. Leishmania is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Leishmania is classified within Leishmaniinae[6].

Discovery and Description

William Boog Leishman is named after Leishmania[5].

Identifiers

Leishmania's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 861897[16]. Leishmania's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 5658[17]. Leishmania's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 539875[18]. Leishmania's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3235457[19].

Why It Matters

Leishmania ranks in the top 0.73% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (784 views/month, #1,417 of 195,241).[2] Leishmania has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] Leishmania is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Higher classification and phylogeny of Euglenozoa. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Higher classification and phylogeny of Euglenozoa. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [17] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [19] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . AlgaeBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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