Mucor

genus of fungi
Taxon taxon Q310801
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Mucor

Summary

Mucor is a taxon[1]. Mucor ranks in the top 0.72% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (443 views/month, #1,412 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Mucor's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Mucor is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Mucor belongs to the parent taxon Mucoraceae[5].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Mucor is Mucor[6].
  • Mucor's Commons category is recorded as Mucor[7].
  • The taxonomic type of Mucor is Mucor mucedo[8].
  • Mucor's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mucor[9].
  • Mucor's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10].
  • Mucor is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '毛霉属'}[11].
  • Mucor's taxon author citation is recorded as P.Micheli ex L.[12].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Mucor is Mucor[6]. Mucor is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Mucor is classified within Mucoraceae[5]. The taxonomic type of Mucor is Mucor mucedo[8]. Mucor is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '毛霉属'}[11].

Identifiers

Mucor's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 353051[13]. Mucor's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4830[14]. Mucor's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 18325[15]. Mucor's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 8774036[16]. Mucor's ITIS TSN is recorded as 13935[17].

Why It Matters

Mucor ranks in the top 0.72% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (443 views/month, #1,412 of 195,241).[2] Mucor has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] Mucor is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . MycoBank. Retrieved . 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] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [16] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] . Relationship between culturable filamentous fungal diversity and environmental factors in Nam Co Lake. wikidata.org.
  14. [13] . wikidata.org.
  15. [12] . Australian Fungi ID. 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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  1. 7d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank genus
    Instance of
    Taxonomic type Mucor mucedo
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007548695805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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