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African brush-tailed porcupine

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Taxon taxon Q787416
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African brush-tailed porcupine

Summary

African brush-tailed porcupine is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (43 views/month, #1,588 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • African brush-tailed porcupine's image is recorded as Porcupine bushmeat in Cameroon.jpg[3].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's image is recorded as Atherurus africanus - Royal Museum for Central Africa - DSC06768.JPG[4].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's taxon rank is recorded as species[6].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Least Concern[7].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's parent taxon is recorded as brush-tailed porcupine[8].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's taxon range map image is recorded as Atherurus africanus distribution map.png[9].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's taxon name is recorded as Atherurus africanus[10].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's Commons category is recorded as Atherurus africanus[11].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's IUCN taxon ID is recorded as 2353[12].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/083n28[13].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 192881[14].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's ITIS TSN is recorded as 584678[15].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 326518[16].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5219892[17].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's MSW ID is recorded as 13400044[18].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'A. africanus'}[19].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'African brush-tailed porcupine'}[20].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'African Brush-tailed Porcupine'}[21].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Afrikanischer Quastenstachler'}[22].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Westafrikanischer Quastenstachler'}[23].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's Xeno-canto species ID is recorded as Atherurus-africanus[24].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 44181[25].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's BOLD Systems taxon ID is recorded as 73307[26].
  • African brush-tailed porcupine's ADW taxon ID is recorded as Atherurus_africanus[27].

Why It Matters

African brush-tailed porcupine ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (43 views/month, #1,588 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . ARKive. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Barcode of Life Data Systems. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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