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African Wading Rat

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Taxon taxon Q386818
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African Wading Rat

Summary

African Wading Rat is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5 views/month, #1,628 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • African Wading Rat's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • African Wading Rat's taxon rank is recorded as species[4].
  • African Wading Rat's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Least Concern[5].
  • African Wading Rat's parent taxon is recorded as Colomys[6].
  • African Wading Rat's taxon name is recorded as Colomys goslingi[7].
  • African Wading Rat's IUCN taxon ID is recorded as 5151[8].
  • African Wading Rat's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02vsd_k[9].
  • African Wading Rat's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 119564[10].
  • African Wading Rat's ITIS TSN is recorded as 585198[11].
  • African Wading Rat's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1179046[12].
  • African Wading Rat's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2439133[13].
  • African Wading Rat's MSW ID is recorded as 13001295[14].
  • African Wading Rat's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/African-water-rat[15].
  • African Wading Rat's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'C. goslingi'}[16].
  • African Wading Rat's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'African Wading Rat'}[17].
  • African Wading Rat's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'African Water Rat'}[18].
  • African Wading Rat's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Velvet Rat'}[19].
  • African Wading Rat's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Afrikanische Waldbachmaus'}[20].
  • African Wading Rat's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Afrikanische Wasserratte'}[21].
  • African Wading Rat's Xeno-canto species ID is recorded as Colomys-goslingi[22].
  • African Wading Rat's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1057325[23].
  • African Wading Rat's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 45787[24].
  • African Wading Rat's BOLD Systems taxon ID is recorded as 359743[25].
  • African Wading Rat's ADW taxon ID is recorded as Colomys[26].
  • African Wading Rat's IRMNG ID is recorded as 11346525[27].

Why It Matters

African Wading Rat ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5 views/month, #1,628 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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