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Alestidae

family of fishes
Taxon taxon Q386545
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Summary

Alestidae is a taxon[1]. Alestidae ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (570 views/month, #1,617 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Characiformes[4], Characoidei[5]
  • Taxon name: Alestidae[6]
  • Commons category: Alestidae[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Alestidae[8]
  • Taxon common name: afrikanske tetraer[9]

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Identifiers

Alestidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 55204[10]. Alestidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 61319[11]. Alestidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8226[12]. Alestidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 7199[13]. Recorded ITIS TSN include 638805[14] and 163281[15].

Why It Matters

Alestidae has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Alestidae is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Pisces. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Pisces. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Catalog of Fishes. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Pisces. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [11] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Itis tsn → 638805, 163281
    Sitelink count → 37
    Instance of → taxon
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