Lemuridae

family of primates
Taxon taxon Q186462
Lemuridae
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Summary

Lemuridae is a taxon[1]. Lemuridae ranks in the top 0.76% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,299 views/month, #1,486 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Named after: Larvae[4]
  • Parent taxon: Lemuroidea[5]
  • Endemic to: Madagascar[6]
  • Taxon name: Lemuridae[7]
  • Commons category: Lemuridae[8]
  • Taxonomic type: Lemur[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lemuridae[10]
  • Commons gallery: Lemuridae[11]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[12]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Otto's encyclopedia[14]
  • CITES Appendix: Appendix I of CITES[15]

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Identifiers

Lemuridae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 43607[16]. Lemuridae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9445[17]. Lemuridae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1650[18]. Lemuridae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5485[19]. Lemuridae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 572767[20].

Why It Matters

Lemuridae has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Lemuridae is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . nmnhs.com. nmnhs.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . babel.hathitrust.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . ZooBank. wikidata.org.
  8. [17] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [20] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [18] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [19] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Cites appendix → Appendix I of CITES
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    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → lemuriniai
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