Rodentia

order of mammals
Taxon taxon Q10850
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Summary

Rodentia is a taxon[1]. Rodentia ranks in the top 0.028% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22,800 views/month, #54 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: order[3]
  • Parent taxon: Glires[4], Placentalia[5], mammal[6], Simplicidentata[7]
  • Taxon name: Rodentia[8]
  • Subclass of: fur-bearing animal[9]
  • Commons category: Rodentia[10]
  • Temporal range start: Thanetian[11]
  • Inception: -66000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[12]
  • Start time: -56000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Rodents[14]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[15]
  • Main food source: herbaceous plant[16]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: بوابة:قوارض[17]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[20], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[22]
  • Natural reservoir of: Leishmania[23]
  • This taxon is source of: rodent meat[24]
  • Taxon common name: القوراض[25], Гризачи[26], Rosegador[27], hlodavci[28], Gnavere[29], Nagetiere[30], Rodents[31], Ronĝuloj[32], Roedor[33], Näriline[34], Jyrsijät[35], Rongeur[36], Gnaudiarten[37], מכרסמים[38]

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Identifiers

Rodentia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9989[39]. Rodentia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8677[40]. Rodentia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 1459[41]. Rodentia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180130[42].

Why It Matters

Rodentia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] Rodentia is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [39] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [42] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [40] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [41] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [43] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [44] ↑ . 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. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q293325
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q293325, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  2. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → rodents
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: rodents, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289964527|rodents (#289964527)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0008501-hlodavci
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0008501-hlodavci, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259473|batch #259473]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main food source → herbaceous plant
    Parent taxon → Glires, Placentalia, mammal +1
    Inception → -66000000-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 1933487
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 3571, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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