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Salmonidae

family of fishes
Taxon taxon Q184238
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Summary

Salmonidae is a taxon[1]. Salmonidae ranks in the top 0.65% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,192 views/month, #1,268 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Salmoniformes[4]
  • Taxon name: Salmonidae[5]
  • Commons category: Salmonidae[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Salmonidae[7]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[8]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Otto's encyclopedia[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[13], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14]
  • This taxon is source of: Salmonidae[15]
  • Taxon common name: laksefamilien[16], postrvi[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]

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Identifiers

Salmonidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47520[19]. Salmonidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8015[20]. Salmonidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 5158[21]. Salmonidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 8615[22]. Salmonidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 161931[23].

Why It Matters

Salmonidae has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Salmonidae is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [20] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [23] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [21] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [22] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . medieval-plants.org. medieval-plants.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . 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. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007674-lososoviti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0007674-lososoviti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Salmoniformes
    Code of nomenclature → International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
    Taxon rank → family
    Instance of → taxon
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007553583605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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