alpaca

domesticated species of South American camelid
Taxon taxon Q81564
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alpaca

Summary

alpaca is a taxon[1]. alpaca ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (46 views/month, #1,572 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • alpaca's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • alpaca is classified at the rank of species[4].
  • alpaca is classified within Vicugna[5].
  • alpaca's scientific name is Vicugna pacos[6].
  • alpaca is a type of domesticated mammal[7].
  • alpaca's Commons category is recorded as Vicugna pacos[8].
  • alpaca's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Vicugna pacos[9].
  • alpaca's Commons gallery is recorded as Vicugna pacos[10].
  • alpaca's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • alpaca's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[12].
  • alpaca's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedic Lexicon[13].
  • alpaca's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • alpaca's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • alpaca's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[16].
  • alpaca's described by source is recorded as Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[17].
  • alpaca's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[18].
  • alpaca's original combination is recorded as Camelus pacos[19].
  • alpaca's has characteristic is recorded as viviparity[20].
  • alpaca's this taxon is source of is recorded as alpaca fiber[21].
  • alpaca's this taxon is source of is recorded as Alpaca fur-skins[22].
  • alpaca's short name is recorded as V. pacos[23].
  • alpaca is commonly known as Alpaca[24].
  • alpaca is commonly known as alpakka[25].
  • alpaca is commonly known as alpaca[26].
  • alpaca is commonly known as alpaka[27].

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Classification

alpaca's scientific name is Vicugna pacos[6]. alpaca is classified at the rank of species[4]. alpaca is classified within Vicugna[5]. Recorded taxon common name include Alpaca[24], alpakka[25], and alpaka[27].

Identifiers

alpaca's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 119406[28]. alpaca's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 30538[29]. alpaca's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 309015[30]. alpaca's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 7515593[31]. alpaca's ITIS TSN is recorded as 898279[32].

Why It Matters

alpaca ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (46 views/month, #1,572 of 195,241).[2] alpaca has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] alpaca is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  8. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  27. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · XRay · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Hashtag → Alpaca
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P2572]]: Alpaca"
  2. 4w ago · Rescq · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Süddeutsche zeitung topic id → Alpakas
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P10916]]: Alpakas, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/213750424|Alpakas (#213750424)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7168|Süddeutsche Zeitung top"
  3. 5w ago · Pitke · 2026-08-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Niconicopedia id → アルパカ
    Different from → alpaca, nickel silver
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1889]]: [[Q203874]]"
  4. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0374853-lama-alpaka
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0374853-lama-alpaka, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  5. 17w ago · Jfpierce · 2026-06-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → viviparity
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1552]]: [[Q120446]]"
  6. 18w ago · Sd5605 · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bgm.tv character id → 11546
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P6296]]: 11546"
  7. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Vicugna
    Subclass of → domesticated mammal
    Instance of → taxon
    Different from → alpaca, nickel silver
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 22261, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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