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Bivalvia

class of molluscs
Taxon taxon Q25368
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia

Summary

Bivalvia is a taxon[1]. Bivalvia ranks in the top 0.46% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,047 views/month, #895 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Bivalvia's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Bivalvia is classified at the rank of class[4].
  • Bivalvia belongs to the parent taxon Mollusca[5].
  • Bivalvia's scientific name is Bivalvia[6].
  • Bivalvia's Commons category is recorded as Bivalvia[7].
  • Bivalvia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bivalves[8].
  • Bivalvia's Commons gallery is recorded as Bivalvia[9].
  • Bivalvia's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • Bivalvia's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11].
  • Bivalvia's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • Bivalvia's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • Bivalvia's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[14].
  • Bivalvia's main Wikidata property is recorded as P10322[15].
  • Bivalvia is commonly known as {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Tweekleppigen'}[16].
  • Bivalvia is commonly known as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'skjell'}[17].
  • Bivalvia is commonly known as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Muscheln'}[18].
  • Bivalvia is commonly known as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'školjke'}[19].
  • Bivalvia's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Bivalvia is Bivalvia[6]. Bivalvia is classified at the rank of class[4]. Bivalvia belongs to the parent taxon Mollusca[5]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Tweekleppigen'}[16], {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'skjell'}[17], {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Muscheln'}[18], and {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'školjke'}[19].

Identifiers

Bivalvia's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47584[21]. Bivalvia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 6544[22]. Bivalvia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 2215[23]. Bivalvia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 137[24]. Bivalvia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 79118[25].

Why It Matters

Bivalvia ranks in the top 0.46% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,047 views/month, #895 of 195,241).[2] Bivalvia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] Bivalvia is known by 108 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . ucmp.berkeley.edu. Retrieved . ucmp.berkeley.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [22] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [25] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [23] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [24] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . Trivialnamen für Mollusken des Meeres und Brackwassers in Deutschland (Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Scaphopoda et Cephalopoda). wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Temporal range start → Q79064
    Instance of → —
    Instance of → taxon
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 1480, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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