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Poxviridae

family of viruses
Taxon taxon Q948421
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Summary

Poxviridae is a taxon[1]. Poxviridae ranks in the top 0.8% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,844 views/month, #1,565 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: virus[4], Chitovirales[5]
  • Taxon name: Poxviridae[6]
  • Commons category: Poxviridae[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Poxviruses[8]
  • Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9]
  • Studied by: wastewater surveillance[10]
  • ICTV virus genome composition: double-stranded DNA[11]
  • P14541: 2D8FPK[12]

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Identifiers

Poxviridae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 484646[13]. Poxviridae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 10240[14]. Poxviridae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8050[15]. Poxviridae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 1937[16].

Why It Matters

Poxviridae has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] Poxviridae is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . ICTV Master Species List 2013 v2. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ICTV Master Species List 2013 v2. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . ICTV Master Species List 2019.v1. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . ICTV Master Species List 2013 v2. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [14] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [15] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [16] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . 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. 7d ago · VGMaintenanceBot bot · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'frr', 'gl',
    Sitelink count → 32
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Mediawiki page id: 65784, Add qualifier to WikiProjectMed ID `Poxviridae`"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2D8FPK
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → virus, Chitovirales
    Instance of → taxon
    Aliases → —
    Taxon rank → family
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007531654705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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