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Viverridae

family of mammals
Taxon taxon Q185864
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Summary

Viverridae is a taxon[1]. Viverridae ranks in the top 0.16% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,816 views/month, #311 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Feliformia[4]
  • Taxon name: Viverridae[5]
  • Commons category: Viverridae[6]
  • Taxonomic type: Viverra[7]
  • Start time: -34000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Viverrids[9]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10], On the Natural Arrangement of Vertebrose Animals[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11[14]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology[16]

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Identifiers

Viverridae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 41574[17]. Viverridae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9673[18]. Viverridae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7663[19]. Viverridae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5312[20]. Viverridae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 621757[21].

Why It Matters

Viverridae has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Viverridae is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . babel.hathitrust.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . ZooBank. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [18] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [21] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [19] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [20] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . 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) → 1912212
    Aliases → —
    Taxonomic type → Viverra
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 12473, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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