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vampire bat

subfamily of mammals
Taxon taxon Q190691
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Summary

vampire bat is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.33% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,649 views/month, #650 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: subfamily[3]
  • Named after: vampire[4]
  • Parent taxon: Phyllostomidae[5]
  • Taxon name: Desmodontinae[6]
  • Commons category: Desmodontinae[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Desmodontinae[8]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13]

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Identifiers

vampire bat's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 366347[14]. vampire bat's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 40237[15]. vampire bat's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 2845587[16]. vampire bat's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4969048[17]. vampire bat's ITIS TSN is recorded as 552342[18].

Why It Matters

vampire bat has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 65 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [15] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [18] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [13] ↑ . 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 ↗
    Named after → —
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language +2
    Named after → vampire
    Taxon rank → subfamily
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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