Bacteria

domain of micro-organisms
Taxon taxon Q10876
Bacteria
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Summary

Bacteria is a taxon[1]. Bacteria ranks in the top 0.12% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34,110 views/month, #236 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: kingdom[3], superkingdom[4], domain[5]
  • Parent taxon: prokaryotes[6], Biota[7], Monera[8]
  • Taxon name: Bacteria[9]
  • Subclass of: microorganism[10]
  • Commons category: Bacteria[11]
  • Taxonomic type: Bacillus[12]
  • Temporal range start: Archean[13]
  • Start time: -3500000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[14]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bacteria[15]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes[16]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: بوابة:بكتيريا[17]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[20], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], The New Student's Reference Work[22]
  • Topic has template: Template:Bacteria[23]
  • Has effect: bacterial infectious disease[24]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C14187[25]
  • Taxon common name: Bakterie[26], بكتيريا[27], Bakterien[28], Бактерии[29], Bakteri[30], Bakterije[31], Bacteris[32], Bακτήρια[33], Bacterium[34], Bakterioj[35], Bakterid[36], باکتری[37], Bakteerit[38], Bactéries[39]

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Identifiers

Bacteria's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 2[40]. Bacteria's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 288[41]. Bacteria's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3[42]. Recorded ITIS TSN include 50[43] and 202421[44].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Bacteria include Karius and Bactus[45], a written work[46], written by Thorbjørn Egner[47].

Why It Matters

Bacteria has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] Bacteria is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]

Entities named for Bacteria include Karius and Bactus[45], a written work[46], written by Thorbjørn Egner[47].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . A higher level classification of all living organisms. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . A higher level classification of all living organisms. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [40] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [41] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [42] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [48] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [49] ↑ . 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. 2d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Itis tsn → 50, 202421
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Itis tsn: 202421, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  2. 4d ago · VGMaintenanceBot bot · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 191
    Wikipedia languages → ['ace', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'arc', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast',
    Claims rich → —
    Name → —
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Mediawiki page id: 66483, Add qualifier to WikiProjectMed ID `Bacteria`"
  3. 4w ago · Flipping Switches · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14880 → 343521
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14880: 343521, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/323184286|Bacteria (#323184286)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8431|UkrBIN]] #mix'n'match"
  4. 6w ago · Rescq · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Süddeutsche zeitung topic id → Bakterien
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Süddeutsche zeitung topic id: Bakterien, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/213750707|Bakterien (#213750707)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7168|Süddeutsch"
  5. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → bacteria
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: bacteria, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289914858|bacteria (#289914858)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  6. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004739-bakterie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004739-bakterie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259473|batch #259473]]"
  7. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 1749, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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