Potoroidae

family of marsupials
Taxon taxon Q23208
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Potoroidae

Summary

Potoroidae is a taxon[1]. Potoroidae ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (235 views/month, #1,544 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Potoroidae's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Potoroidae is classified at the rank of family[4].
  • Potoroidae belongs to the parent taxon Macropodiformes[5].
  • Potoroidae is endemic to Australia[6].
  • Potoroidae's scientific name is Potoroidae[7].
  • Potoroidae's Commons category is recorded as Potoroidae[8].
  • The taxonomic type of Potoroidae is Potorous[9].
  • Potoroidae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Potoroids[10].
  • Potoroidae's Commons gallery is recorded as Potoroidae[11].
  • Potoroidae's code of nomenclature is recorded as International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[12].
  • Potoroidae's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
  • Potoroidae's gait is recorded as hopping gait[14].
  • Potoroidae's means of locomotion is recorded as quadrupedalism[15].
  • Potoroidae's means of locomotion is recorded as bipedalism[16].

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Classification

Potoroidae's scientific name is Potoroidae[7]. Potoroidae is classified at the rank of family[4]. Potoroidae is classified within Macropodiformes[5]. The taxonomic type of Potoroidae is Potorous[9].

Distribution

Potoroidae is endemic to Australia[6].

Identifiers

Potoroidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 42984[17]. Potoroidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 65619[18]. Potoroidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1699[19]. Potoroidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5460[20]. Potoroidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 552322[21].

Why It Matters

Potoroidae ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (235 views/month, #1,544 of 195,241).[2] Potoroidae has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Potoroidae is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

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 . babel.hathitrust.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . ZooBank. wikidata.org.
  8. [18] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [21] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [19] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [20] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] . wikidata.org.
  18. [15] . wikidata.org.
  19. [16] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category Category:Potoroids
    Means of locomotion quadrupedalism, bipedalism
    Taxon rank family
    Instance of taxon
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007541625505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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