Mephitidae

Summary

Mephitidae is a taxon^[1]. Mephitidae ranks in the top 0.55% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,259 views/month, #1,076 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• Mephitidae's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• Mephitidae is classified at the rank of family^[4].
• Mephitidae belongs to the parent taxon Musteloidea^[5].
• Mephitidae belongs to the parent taxon Caniformia^[6].
• Mephitidae's scientific name is Mephitidae^[7].
• Mephitidae's Commons category is recorded as Mephitidae^[8].
• Mephitidae's Unicode character is recorded as 🦨^[9].
• Mephitidae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mephitidae^[10].
• Mephitidae's code of nomenclature is recorded as International Code of Zoological Nomenclature^[11].
• Mephitidae is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'skunk'}^[12].
• Mephitidae's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[13].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Mephitidae is Mephitidae^[7]. Mephitidae is classified at the rank of family^[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Musteloidea^[5] and Caniformia^[6]. Mephitidae is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'skunk'}^[12].

Identifiers

Mephitidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 41871^[14]. Mephitidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 119825^[15]. Mephitidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7671^[16]. Mephitidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 9679^[17]. Mephitidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 552336^[18].

Why It Matters

Mephitidae ranks in the top 0.55% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,259 views/month, #1,076 of 195,241).^[2] Mephitidae has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[19] Mephitidae is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[20]