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Alcedines

suborder of birds
Taxon taxon Q45018
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Alcedines

Summary

Alcedines is a taxon[1]. Alcedines ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6 views/month, #1,628 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Alcedines's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Alcedines is classified at the rank of suborder[4].
  • Alcedines is classified within Coraciiformes[5].
  • Alcedines's scientific name is Alcedines[6].
  • Alcedines's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Alcedines[7].

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Classification

Alcedines's scientific name is Alcedines[6]. Alcedines is classified at the rank of suborder[4]. Alcedines is classified within Coraciiformes[5].

Identifiers

Alcedines's ITIS TSN is recorded as 178103[8].

Why It Matters

Alcedines ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6 views/month, #1,628 of 195,241).[2] Alcedines has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] Alcedines is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Coraciiformes
    Taxon rank → suborder
    Instance of → taxon
    Wikipedia languages → ['ace', 'ang', 'arz', 'as', 'bh', 'br', 'cdo', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'gl', 'gu', 'hi
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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