African giant shrew

species of mammal
Taxon taxon Q1762922
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African giant shrew

Summary

African giant shrew is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14 views/month, #1,617 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • African giant shrew's image is recorded as The Congo Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1919) (20680539435).jpg[3].
  • African giant shrew's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • African giant shrew's taxon rank is recorded as species[5].
  • African giant shrew's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Least Concern[6].
  • African giant shrew's parent taxon is recorded as Crocidura[7].
  • African giant shrew's taxon range map image is recorded as African Giant Shrew area.png[8].
  • African giant shrew's taxon name is recorded as Crocidura olivieri[9].
  • African giant shrew's Commons category is recorded as Crocidura olivieri[10].
  • African giant shrew's IUCN taxon ID is recorded as 41348[11].
  • African giant shrew's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02wbwmj[12].
  • African giant shrew's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 214449[13].
  • African giant shrew's ITIS TSN is recorded as 633653[14].
  • African giant shrew's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1178844[15].
  • African giant shrew's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2435579[16].
  • African giant shrew's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Crocidura olivieri[17].
  • African giant shrew's MSW ID is recorded as 13700151[18].
  • African giant shrew's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'African giant shrew'}[19].
  • African giant shrew's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'African Giant Shrew'}[20].
  • African giant shrew's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "Olivier's Shrew"}[21].
  • African giant shrew's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Olivier’s Shrew'}[22].
  • African giant shrew's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Afrikanische Riesenspitzmaus'}[23].
  • African giant shrew's Xeno-canto species ID is recorded as Crocidura-olivieri[24].
  • African giant shrew's ARKive ID is recorded as crocidura-olivieri[25].
  • African giant shrew's ARKive ID is recorded as african-giant-shrew/crocidura-olivieri[26].
  • African giant shrew's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1672926[27].

Why It Matters

African giant shrew ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14 views/month, #1,617 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 9 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] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . ARKive. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . 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] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . 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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