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Rickettsia rickettsii

species of bacterium
Taxon taxon Q2698925
Rickettsia rickettsii
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Summary

Rickettsia rickettsii is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (589 views/month, #1,537 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • Parent taxon: Rickettsia[4]
  • Taxon name: Rickettsia rickettsii[5]
  • Commons category: Rickettsia rickettsii[6]
  • Has effect: Rocky Mountain spotted fever[7]
  • Short name: R. rickettsii[8]
  • LPSN URL: https://lpsn.dsmz.de/species/rickettsia-rickettsii[9]
  • Gram staining: gram-negative bacteria[10]

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Identifiers

Rickettsia rickettsii's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 783[11]. Rickettsia rickettsii's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 976598[12]. Rickettsia rickettsii's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3221486[13]. Rickettsia rickettsii's ITIS TSN is recorded as 965661[14].

Why It Matters

Rickettsia rickettsii has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [11] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [14] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [12] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [13] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [7] ↑ . Disease Ontology. wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . 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. 22h ago · VGMaintenanceBot bot · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ca', 'commons', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'gl', 'it', 'ms', 'pt', 'ro', 'ru', 'species
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Mediawiki page id: 65482, Add qualifier to WikiProjectMed ID `Rickettsia rickettsii`"
  2. 8w ago · Debessis · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → species
    Instance of → —
    Gram staining → gram-negative bacteria
    Parent taxon → Rickettsia
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||tt */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48016|batch #48016]]"
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