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Numididae

family of birds
Taxon taxon Q171953
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Summary

Numididae is a taxon[1]. Numididae ranks in the top 0.22% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,332 views/month, #424 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Galliformes[4]
  • Taxon name: Numididae[5]
  • Subclass of: poultry[6]
  • Commons category: Numididae[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Numididae[8]
  • Commons gallery: Numididae[9]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[10]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[13]
  • This taxon is source of: guinea fowl meat[14], guineafowl egg[15]
  • Taxon common name: perlehønsfamilien[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]

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Identifiers

Numididae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 1426[18]. Numididae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8990[19]. Numididae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7592[20]. Numididae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5260[21]. Numididae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 176121[22].

Why It Matters

Numididae has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Numididae is known by 74 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [19] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [22] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [20] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [21] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . 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 → Q292155
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q292155, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001261-perlicky
    Instance of → —
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001261-perlicky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
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