Tridacna

genus of large saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Tridacninae
Taxon taxon Q2387255
Tridacna
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Tridacna

Summary

Tridacna is a taxon[1]. Tridacna ranks in the top 0.8% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (85 views/month, #1,555 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tridacna's image is recorded as Giant clam or Tridacna gigas.jpg[3].
  • Tridacna's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Tridacna's taxon rank is recorded as genus[5].
  • Tridacna's parent taxon is recorded as Tridacninae[6].
  • Tridacna's taxon name is recorded as Tridacna[7].
  • Tridacna's Commons category is recorded as Tridacna[8].
  • Tridacna's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025sm6g[9].
  • Tridacna's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 52939[10].
  • Tridacna's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46473743[11].
  • Tridacna's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 18354[12].
  • Tridacna's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4372618[13].
  • Tridacna's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 205753[14].
  • Tridacna's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tridacna[15].
  • Tridacna's described by source is recorded as The King of Mollusks[16].
  • Tridacna's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • Tridacna's this zoological name is coordinate with is recorded as Tridacna[18].
  • Tridacna's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1017019[19].
  • Tridacna's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 50592[20].
  • Tridacna's BOLD Systems taxon ID is recorded as 6160[21].
  • Tridacna's ADW taxon ID is recorded as Tridacna[22].
  • Tridacna's uBio ID is recorded as 8330960[23].
  • Tridacna's IRMNG ID is recorded as 1319556[24].
  • Tridacna's Australian Faunal Directory ID is recorded as Tridacna;TRIDACNINAE[25].
  • Tridacna's Australian Faunal Directory ID is recorded as Tridacna[26].
  • Tridacna's NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID is recorded as giant-clam-tridacna-spp[27].

Why It Matters

Tridacna ranks in the top 0.8% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (85 views/month, #1,555 of 195,241).[2] Tridacna has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Tridacna is known by 5 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] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Animal Diversity Web. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Barcode of Life Data Systems. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . 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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