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Mephitidae

family of mammals
Taxon taxon Q83244
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Summary

Mephitidae is a taxon[1]. Mephitidae ranks in the top 0.55% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,373 views/month, #1,076 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Musteloidea[4], Caniformia[5]
  • Taxon name: Mephitidae[6]
  • Commons category: Mephitidae[7]
  • Unicode character: 🦨[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Mephitidae[9]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[10]
  • Taxon common name: skunk[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12]

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Identifiers

Mephitidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 41871[13]. Mephitidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 119825[14]. Mephitidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7671[15]. Mephitidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 9679[16]. Mephitidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 552336[17].

Why It Matters

Mephitidae has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] Mephitidae is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q293386
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  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → family
    Instance of → —
    Parent taxon → Musteloidea, Caniformia
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 3624776
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007548632005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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