sailfish

genus of fishes
Taxon taxon Q127497
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sailfish

Summary

sailfish is a taxon[1]. sailfish ranks in the top 0.53% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (696 views/month, #1,041 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • sailfish's image is recorded as Istiophorus platypterus.jpg[3].
  • sailfish's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • sailfish's taxon rank is recorded as genus[5].
  • sailfish's parent taxon is recorded as Istiophoridae[6].
  • sailfish's taxon name is recorded as Istiophorus[7].
  • sailfish's Commons category is recorded as Istiophorus[8].
  • sailfish's start time is recorded as -59000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • sailfish's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/059bph[10].
  • sailfish's UNII is recorded as 045DP0Q3KO[11].
  • sailfish's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 13574[12].
  • sailfish's ITIS TSN is recorded as 172487[13].
  • sailfish's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46581442[14].
  • sailfish's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 36055[15].
  • sailfish's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2397970[16].
  • sailfish's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 126012[17].
  • sailfish's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Istiophorus[18].
  • sailfish's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • sailfish's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/sailfish[20].
  • sailfish's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Sailfishes'}[21].
  • sailfish's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'pt', 'text': 'Peixe-vela'}[22].
  • sailfish's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'th', 'text': 'ปลากระโทงร่ม'}[23].
  • sailfish's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'vi', 'text': 'Cá buồm'}[24].
  • sailfish's MCN code is recorded as 0302.89.11[25].
  • sailfish's New Zealand Organisms Register ID is recorded as a3482403-1c21-4b36-9e78-f93049b51b7a[26].
  • sailfish's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1081309[27].

Why It Matters

sailfish ranks in the top 0.53% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (696 views/month, #1,041 of 195,241).[2] sailfish has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] sailfish is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . New Zealand Organisms Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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