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Onchocerca

genus of worms
Taxon taxon Q2679195
Onchocerca
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Onchocerca

Summary

Onchocerca is a taxon[1]. Onchocerca ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month, #1,622 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Onchocerca's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Onchocerca is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Onchocerca belongs to the parent taxon Onchocercidae[5].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Onchocerca is Onchocerca[6].
  • Onchocerca's Commons category is recorded as Onchocerca[7].

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Classification

Onchocerca's scientific name is Onchocerca[6]. Onchocerca is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Onchocerca is classified within Onchocercidae[5].

Identifiers

Onchocerca's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 417543[8]. Onchocerca's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 6281[9]. Onchocerca's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4557108[10].

Why It Matters

Onchocerca ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month, #1,622 of 195,241).[2] Onchocerca has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Onchocercidae
    Instance of → taxon
    Taxon rank → genus
    Aliases → —
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007548801305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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