Bison

Summary

Bison is a taxon^[1]. Bison ranks in the top 0.38% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (970 views/month, #738 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• Bison's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• Bison is classified at the rank of genus^[4].
• Bison belongs to the parent taxon Bovinae^[5].
• Bison's scientific name is Bison^[6].
• Bison's Commons category is recorded as Bison^[7].
• Bison began on -2000000-00-00T00:00:00Z^[8].
• Bison's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bison^[9].
• Bison's main food source is recorded as Poaceae^[10].
• Bison's main food source is recorded as Carex^[11].
• Bison's main food source is recorded as Eudicots^[12].
• Bison's main food source is recorded as Salix^[13].
• Bison's main food source is recorded as Ozothamnus leptophyllus^[14].
• Bison's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[15].
• Bison's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia^[16].
• Bison's topic has template is recorded as Q25721265^[17].
• Bison's this taxon is source of is recorded as bison^[18].
• Bison's different from is recorded as Bizon^[19].
• Bison's different from is recorded as Bizon-class tugboats^[20].

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Classification

Bison's scientific name is Bison^[6]. Bison is classified at the rank of genus^[4]. Bison belongs to the parent taxon Bovinae^[5].

Identifiers

Bison's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 42406^[21]. Bison's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9900^[22]. Bison's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2441175^[23]. Bison's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180705^[24].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Bison include GNU bison^[25], a compiler-compiler^[26], founded in 1985^[27] and Bison^[28], a destroyer^[29].

Why It Matters

Bison ranks in the top 0.38% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (970 views/month, #738 of 195,241).^[2] Bison has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] Bison is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]

Entities named for Bison include GNU bison^[25], a compiler-compiler^[26], founded in 1985^[27] and Bison^[28], a destroyer^[29].