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paddlefish

family of fishes
Taxon taxon Q858011
paddlefish
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Summary

paddlefish is a taxon[1]. paddlefish ranks in the top 0.55% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,300 views/month, #1,080 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Acipenseriformes[4]
  • Taxon name: Polyodontidae[5]
  • Commons category: Polyodontidae[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Polyodontidae[7]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[8]
  • Taxon common name: spadestørfamilien[9]
  • Different from: Regalecidae[10]

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Identifiers

paddlefish's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 54727[11]. paddlefish's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7911[12]. paddlefish's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8301[13]. paddlefish's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2948[14]. Recorded ITIS TSN include 161085[15], 65022[16], 161086[17], and 65021[18].

Why It Matters

paddlefish has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] paddlefish is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . 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. 5d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Itis tsn → 161085, 65022, 161086 +1
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Itis tsn: 65021, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  2. 5d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Itis tsn → 161085, 65022, 161086 +1
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Itis tsn: 65022, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  3. 9w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i49599
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 02641942-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Parent taxon → Acipenseriformes
    Instance of → taxon
    Aliases → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007555723705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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