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Plesiops

genus of fishes
Taxon taxon Q2661839
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Plesiops

Summary

Plesiops is a taxon[1]. Plesiops ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8 views/month, #1,629 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Plesiops's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Plesiops is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Plesiops belongs to the parent taxon Plesiopidae[5].
  • Plesiops belongs to the parent taxon Plesiopinae[6].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Plesiops is Plesiops[7].
  • Plesiops's Commons category is recorded as Plesiops[8].
  • Plesiops's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Plesiops[9].

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Classification

Plesiops's scientific name is Plesiops[7]. Plesiops is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Plesiopidae[5] and Plesiopinae[6].

Identifiers

Plesiops's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 91167[10]. Plesiops's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 270569[11]. Plesiops's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5428900[12]. Plesiops's ITIS TSN is recorded as 168020[13].

Why It Matters

Plesiops ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8 views/month, #1,629 of 195,241).[2] Plesiops has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Plesiopidae, Plesiopinae
    Topic's main category → Category:Plesiops
    Instance of → taxon
    Taxon rank → genus
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007551741705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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