Onchocerca volvulus

species of nematode
Taxon taxon Q137224
Onchocerca volvulus
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Onchocerca volvulus

Summary

Onchocerca volvulus is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.78% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (440 views/month, #1,514 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Onchocerca volvulus's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Onchocerca volvulus is classified at the rank of species[4].
  • Onchocerca volvulus is classified within Onchocerca[5].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Onchocerca volvulus is Onchocerca volvulus[6].
  • Onchocerca volvulus's Commons category is recorded as Onchocerca volvulus[7].
  • Onchocerca volvulus's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'O. volvulus'}[8].
  • Onchocerca volvulus is commonly known as {'lang': 'ko', 'text': '회선사상충'}[9].
  • Onchocerca volvulus's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Invasion Biology[10].
  • Onchocerca volvulus's taxon author citation is recorded as Leuckart, 1893[11].
  • Onchocerca volvulus's sequenced genome URL is recorded as https://metazoa.ensembl.org/Onchocerca_volvulus[12].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Onchocerca volvulus is Onchocerca volvulus[6]. It is classified at the rank of species[4]. It belongs to the parent taxon Onchocerca[5]. It is commonly known as {'lang': 'ko', 'text': '회선사상충'}[9].

Identifiers

Onchocerca volvulus's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 417542[13]. Onchocerca volvulus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 6282[14]. Onchocerca volvulus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 7031770[15].

Why It Matters

Onchocerca volvulus ranks in the top 0.78% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (440 views/month, #1,514 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . eol.org. Retrieved . eol.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [14] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [15] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] . Ensembl Genomes. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon Onchocerca
    Taxon rank species
    Instance of taxon
    Maintained by wikiproject WikiProject Invasion Biology
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007548801205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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