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Tilefish

family of fishes
Taxon taxon Q1782772
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Tilefish

Summary

Tilefish is a taxon[1]. Tilefish ranks in the top 0.73% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28 views/month, #1,430 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tilefish's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Tilefish is classified at the rank of family[4].
  • Tilefish belongs to the parent taxon Percoidei[5].
  • Tilefish is classified within Eupercaria[6].
  • Tilefish is classified within Perciformes[7].
  • Tilefish's scientific name is Malacanthidae[8].
  • Tilefish's Commons category is recorded as Malacanthidae[9].
  • Tilefish's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Malacanthidae[10].

Body

Classification

Tilefish's scientific name is Malacanthidae[8]. Tilefish is classified at the rank of family[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Percoidei[5], Eupercaria[6], and Perciformes[7].

Identifiers

Tilefish's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 49170[11]. Tilefish's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 30851[12]. Tilefish's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 5292[13]. Tilefish's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 8543[14]. Tilefish's ITIS TSN is recorded as 168537[15].

Why It Matters

Tilefish ranks in the top 0.73% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28 views/month, #1,430 of 195,241).[2] Tilefish has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Tilefish is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . 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. [7] ↑ . Catalog of Fishes. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [15] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → family
    Instance of → taxon
    Parent taxon → Percoidei, Eupercaria, Perciformes
    Topic's main category → Category:Malacanthidae
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007536569905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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