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Turaco

family of birds
Taxon taxon Q213827
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Summary

Turaco is a taxon[1]. Turaco ranks in the top 0.73% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,513 views/month, #1,426 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Musophagiformes[4]
  • Taxon name: Musophagidae[5]
  • Commons category: Musophagidae[6]
  • Start time: -24000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Musophagidae[8]
  • Commons gallery: Musophagidae[9]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[10]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13]
  • Taxon common name: turakofamilien[14]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15]

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Identifiers

Turaco's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 7194[16]. Turaco's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 56302[17]. Turaco's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7576[18]. Turaco's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5258[19]. Turaco's ITIS TSN is recorded as 177818[20].

Why It Matters

Turaco has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Turaco is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [17] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [20] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [18] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [19] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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