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Oomycetes

fungus-like organism
Taxon taxon Q223597
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Summary

Oomycetes is a taxon[1]. Oomycetes ranks in the top 0.68% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,274 views/month, #1,333 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: class[3], order[4]
  • Parent taxon: heterokont[5], Chromista[6], Heterokonta[7]
  • Taxon name: Oomycota[8]
  • Commons category: Oomycetes[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Water moulds[10]
  • Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary[11]

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Identifiers

Oomycetes's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 52595[12]. Oomycetes's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4762[13]. Oomycetes's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 5719[14]. Oomycetes's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 32[15].

Why It Matters

Oomycetes has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Oomycetes is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] ↑ . 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. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → taxon
    Aliases → —
    Taxon rank → class, order
    Parent taxon → heterokont, Chromista, Heterokonta
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ Yso id: 29458, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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