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Tree-kangaroo

genus of mammals
Taxon taxon Q325064
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Summary

Tree-kangaroo is a taxon[1]. Tree-kangaroo ranks in the top 0.57% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,103 views/month, #1,114 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Macropodinae[4], Dendrolagini[5]
  • Taxon name: Dendrolagus[6]
  • Commons category: Dendrolagus[7]
  • Taxonomic type: Ursine tree-kangaroo[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Dendrolagus[9]
  • Commons gallery: Dendrolagus[10]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12]
  • Taxon author citation: Müller & Schlegel, 1839[13]

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Identifiers

Tree-kangaroo's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 42896[14]. Tree-kangaroo's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 38603[15]. Tree-kangaroo's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 34777[16]. Tree-kangaroo's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2440205[17]. Tree-kangaroo's ITIS TSN is recorded as 552442[18].

Why It Matters

Tree-kangaroo has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Tree-kangaroo is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [15] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [18] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [16] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [17] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [13] ↑ . biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved . biodiversity.org.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i45187
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 01882020-n
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  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → genus
    Instance of → —
    Taxonomic type → Ursine tree-kangaroo
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007548786805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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