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Pteropodidae

family of mammals
Taxon taxon Q185230
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Pteropodidae

Summary

Pteropodidae is a taxon[1]. Pteropodidae ranks in the top 0.33% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,328 views/month, #637 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pteropodidae's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Pteropodidae is classified at the rank of family[4].
  • Pteropodidae belongs to the parent taxon Chiroptera[5].
  • Pteropodidae belongs to the parent taxon Pteropodoidea[6].
  • Pteropodidae's scientific name is Pteropodidae[7].
  • Pteropodidae's Commons category is recorded as Pteropodidae[8].
  • The taxonomic type of Pteropodidae is Pteropus[9].
  • Pteropodidae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Megabats[10].
  • Pteropodidae's Commons gallery is recorded as Pteropodidae[11].
  • Pteropodidae's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12].
  • Pteropodidae's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
  • Pteropodidae's natural reservoir of is recorded as Ebolavirus[14].
  • Pteropodidae's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15].
  • Pteropodidae's diel cycle is recorded as crepuscular[16].

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Classification

Pteropodidae's scientific name is Pteropodidae[7]. Pteropodidae is classified at the rank of family[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Chiroptera[5] and Pteropodoidea[6]. The taxonomic type of Pteropodidae is Pteropus[9].

Identifiers

Pteropodidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 40782[17]. Pteropodidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9398[18]. Pteropodidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7636[19]. Pteropodidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 9367[20]. Pteropodidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180029[21].

Why It Matters

Pteropodidae ranks in the top 0.33% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,328 views/month, #637 of 195,241).[2] Pteropodidae has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Pteropodidae is known by 90 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] ↑ . Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758. 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] ↑ . Evolution and spectral tuning of visual pigments in birds and mammals. 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. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Chiroptera, Pteropodoidea
    Taxon rank → family
    Instance of → taxon
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007546279805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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