pelican
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Summary
pelican is a taxon[1]. pelican ranks in the top 0.29% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,590 views/month, #572 of 195,241).[2]
Key Facts
- Taxon rank: genus[3]
- Parent taxon: pelicans[4]
- Taxon name: Pelecanus[5]
- Commons category: Pelecanus[6]
- Start time: -28100000-00-00T00:00:00Z[7]
- Topic's main category: Category:Pelecanus[8]
- Commons gallery: Pelecanus[9]
- Depicted by: Bronze lectern ''Pelican''[10]
- Described by source: Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[11], Otto's encyclopedia[12], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[13], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Second Edition[14], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[17], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[18], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[19], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[20], Encyclopedic Lexicon[21]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]
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Identifiers
pelican's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 4324[23]. pelican's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 33617[24]. pelican's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 45509058[25]. pelican's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 10650925[26]. pelican's ITIS TSN is recorded as 174683[27].
Discovery and Description
Things named for pelican include Pelecanimimus[28], a fossil taxon[29] and Pelican Island, Bridgetown[30], a former island[31], in Barbados[32].
Why It Matters
pelican has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] pelican is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]
Entities named for pelican include Pelecanimimus[28], a fossil taxon[29] and Pelican Island, Bridgetown[30], a former island[31], in Barbados[32].