beaver

Summary

beaver is a taxon^[1]. beaver ranks in the top 0.034% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15,557 views/month, #67 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• beaver's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• beaver is classified at the rank of genus^[4].
• beaver is classified within Castoridae^[5].
• beaver belongs to the parent taxon Castorinae^[6].
• beaver belongs to the parent taxon Castorini^[7].
• beaver's scientific name is Castor^[8].
• beaver is a type of herbivore^[9].
• beaver is used for soil enrichment^[10].
• beaver's Commons category is recorded as Castor^[11].
• The taxonomic type of beaver is Castor fiber^[12].
• beaver's Unicode character is recorded as 🦫^[13].
• beaver comprises tail^[14].
• beaver began on -24000000-00-00T00:00:00Z^[15].
• beaver's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Castor^[16].
• beaver's Commons gallery is recorded as Castor^[17].
• beaver's depicted by is recorded as flag of Oregon^[18].
• beaver's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa^[19].
• beaver's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• beaver's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[21].
• beaver's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[22].
• beaver's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[23].
• beaver's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921^[24].
• beaver's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[25].
• beaver's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia^[26].
• beaver's has effect is recorded as flood^[27].

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Classification

beaver's scientific name is Castor^[8]. beaver is classified at the rank of genus^[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Castoridae^[5], Castorinae^[6], and Castorini^[7]. The taxonomic type of beaver is Castor fiber^[12].

Identifiers

beaver's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 43792^[28]. beaver's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 10184^[29]. beaver's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 42276^[30]. beaver's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3240758^[31]. beaver's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180211^[32].

Discovery and Description

Things named for beaver include Beaver Wars^[33], a series of wars^[34], in United States^[35]; busy beaver^[36]; Kastoria^[37], a human settlement^[38], in Greece^[39]; DBeaver^[40], a software^[41], founded in 2011^[42]; Beaver UAV^[43], an attack drone^[44], founded in 2023^[45]; Beaverton^[46], a city of Oregon^[47], in United States^[48], founded in 1847^[49]; and Castoro Sei^[50], a semi-submersible^[51].

Why It Matters

beaver ranks in the top 0.034% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15,557 views/month, #67 of 195,241).^[2] beaver has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[52] beaver is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[53]

Entities named for beaver include Beaver Wars^[33], a series of wars^[34], in United States^[35]; busy beaver^[36]; Kastoria^[37], a human settlement^[38], in Greece^[39]; DBeaver^[40], a software^[41], founded in 2011^[42]; Beaver UAV^[43], an attack drone^[44], founded in 2023^[45]; and Beaverton^[46], a city of Oregon^[47], in United States^[48], founded in 1847^[49].