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Tunicata

subphylum of chordates (marine invertebrates)
Taxon taxon Q165118
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Summary

Tunicata is a taxon[1]. Tunicata ranks in the top 0.31% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,561 views/month, #609 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: subphylum[3]
  • Parent taxon: Chordata[4], Olfactores[5]
  • Taxon name: Tunicata[6]
  • Commons category: Tunicata[7]
  • Start time: -520000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Tunicates[9]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[10], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16]
  • Taxon common name: kappedyr[17], plaščarji[18]
  • Studied by: ascidiology[19]

Body

Identifiers

Tunicata's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 130868[20]. Tunicata's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7712[21]. Tunicata's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46582349[22]. Tunicata's ITIS TSN is recorded as 203347[23].

Why It Matters

Tunicata has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Tunicata is known by 80 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [21] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [23] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [20] ↑ . 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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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2283419
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    Start time → -520000000-00-00T00:00:00Z
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