Wolbachia

genus of bacteria
Taxon taxon Q283526
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Wolbachia

Summary

Wolbachia is a taxon[1]. Wolbachia ranks in the top 0.73% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (722 views/month, #1,419 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Wolbachia's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Wolbachia is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Simeon Burt Wolbach is named after Wolbachia[5].
  • Wolbachia is classified within Anaplasmataceae[6].
  • Wolbachia belongs to the parent taxon Ehrlichiaceae[7].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Wolbachia is Wolbachia[8].
  • Wolbachia's Commons category is recorded as Wolbachia[9].
  • The taxonomic type of Wolbachia is Wolbachia pipientis[10].
  • Wolbachia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Wolbachia[11].
  • Wolbachia's LPSN URL is recorded as http://www.bacterio.net/wolbachia.html[12].
  • Wolbachia's Gram staining is recorded as gram-negative bacteria[13].
  • Wolbachia's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Zika Corpus[14].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Wolbachia is Wolbachia[8]. Wolbachia is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Anaplasmataceae[6] and Ehrlichiaceae[7]. The taxonomic type of Wolbachia is Wolbachia pipientis[10].

Discovery and Description

Simeon Burt Wolbach is named after Wolbachia[5].

Identifiers

Recorded iNaturalist taxon ID include 356524[15], 493386[16], 489300[17], 493363[18], 496643[19], and 475148[20]. Wolbachia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 953[21]. Wolbachia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 98247[22]. Wolbachia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3221437[23]. Wolbachia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 958403[24].

Why It Matters

Wolbachia ranks in the top 0.73% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (722 views/month, #1,419 of 195,241).[2] Wolbachia has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25]

References

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  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [21] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [24] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [22] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [23] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  21. [20] . wikidata.org.
  22. [14] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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