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Poritidae

family of cnidarians
Taxon taxon Q140248
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Summary

Poritidae is a taxon[1]. Poritidae ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (84 views/month, #1,627 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Refertina[4]
  • Taxon name: Poritidae[5]
  • Commons category: Poritidae[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Poritidae[7]

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Identifiers

Poritidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47531[8]. Poritidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 46718[9]. Poritidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 9241[10]. Poritidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 53176[11].

Why It Matters

Poritidae has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] Poritidae is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 2d ago · PieterJanR · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Catalogue of life id → 84KPB
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ceb', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'it', 'ja', 'nl', 'pt', 'ru', 'speci
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Catalogue of life id: 84KPB"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Refertina
    Taxon rank → family
    Instance of → taxon
    Instance of → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007541667705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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