Stentor

genus of protists
Taxon taxon Q1202152
Stentor
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Summary

Stentor is a taxon[1]. Stentor ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,022 views/month, #1,533 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Protist of the Year[3]
  • Taxon rank: genus[4]
  • Named after: Stentor[5]
  • Parent taxon: Stentoridae[6]
  • Taxon name: Stentor[7]
  • Commons category: Stentor[8]
  • Taxonomic type: Stentor muelleri[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Stentor[10]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13]
  • Taxon common name: Trumpet animalcules[14], Trompetentierchen[15]
  • Different from: STENTOR[16]

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Identifiers

Stentor's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 246099[17]. Stentor's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 5962[18]. Stentor's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 62051[19]. Stentor's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2640553[20]. Recorded ITIS TSN include 46596[21] and 572846[22].

Why It Matters

Stentor has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Stentor is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

FAQs

What awards did Stentor receive?

Honors received include Protist of the Year[3].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . Stentor coeruleus. wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . protozoologie.de. Retrieved . protozoologie.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . The World Ciliate Catalog. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Opinion 418 Validation under the Plenary Powers of the generic name Stentor Oken, 1815 (class Ciliophora). wikidata.org.
  8. [18] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [19] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [20] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . 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. 3d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Itis tsn → 46596, 572846
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Itis tsn: 572846, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  2. 3d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Itis tsn → 46596, 572846
    Sitelink count → 25
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'be', 'bs', 'ca', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fr', 'gl', 'hu', 'id',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Itis tsn: 46596, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  3. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i42661
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 01399099-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxonomic type → Stentor muelleri
    Parent taxon → Stentoridae
    Instance of → taxon
    Award received → Protist of the Year
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007546581705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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