Blastocystis

genus of Heterokonta
Taxon taxon Q1756496
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Blastocystis

Summary

Blastocystis is a taxon[1]. Blastocystis ranks in the top 0.78% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (133 views/month, #1,521 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Blastocystis received the Protist of the Year[3].
  • Blastocystis's image is recorded as Four common forms of Blastocystis hominis Valzn.jpg[4].
  • Blastocystis's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Blastocystis's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Blastocystis's parent taxon is recorded as Blastocystidae[7].
  • Blastocystis's parent taxon is recorded as Chromista[8].
  • Blastocystis's taxon name is recorded as Blastocystis[9].
  • Blastocystis's Commons category is recorded as Blastocystis[10].
  • Blastocystis's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D016844[11].
  • Blastocystis's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09z28q[12].
  • Blastocystis's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.046.500.100.200.200[13].
  • Blastocystis's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 12967[14].
  • Blastocystis's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 6796124[15].
  • Blastocystis's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 30934[16].
  • Blastocystis's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3249807[17].
  • Blastocystis's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 1635533[18].
  • Blastocystis's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Blastocystis[19].
  • Blastocystis's MycoBank taxon name ID is recorded as 20081[20].
  • Blastocystis's AlgaeBase URL is recorded as https://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=49386[21].
  • Blastocystis's Index Fungorum taxon ID is recorded as 20081[22].
  • Blastocystis's New Zealand Organisms Register ID is recorded as 1ff6feb5-5ffc-4ac8-8926-c231921b5503[23].
  • Blastocystis's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0005707[24].
  • Blastocystis's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as blastocystis-infections[25].
  • Blastocystis's IRMNG ID is recorded as 1031549[26].
  • Blastocystis's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778092740[27].

Body

Recognition

Blastocystis received the Protist of the Year[3].

Why It Matters

Blastocystis ranks in the top 0.78% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (133 views/month, #1,521 of 195,241).[2] Blastocystis has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Blastocystis is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

FAQs

What awards did Blastocystis receive?

Honors received include Protist of the Year[3].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . protozoologie.de. Retrieved . protozoologie.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . MycoBank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . AlgaeBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Index Fungorum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . New Zealand Organisms Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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