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Bombycilla

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Bombycilla

Summary

Bombycilla is a taxon[1]. Bombycilla ranks in the top 0.77% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (120 views/month, #1,511 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Bombycilla's image is recorded as Bohemian Wax Wing.jpg[3].
  • Bombycilla's image is recorded as Cedarwaxwing.jpg[4].
  • Bombycilla's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Bombycilla's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Bombycilla's parent taxon is recorded as Bombycillidae[7].
  • Bombycilla's taxon name is recorded as Bombycilla[8].
  • Bombycilla's GND ID is recorded as 4384941-6[9].
  • Bombycilla's Commons category is recorded as Bombycilla[10].
  • Bombycilla's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01cry_[11].
  • Bombycilla's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 125296[12].
  • Bombycilla's ITIS TSN is recorded as 178528[13].
  • Bombycilla's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 45510952[14].
  • Bombycilla's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 99162[15].
  • Bombycilla's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2484604[16].
  • Bombycilla's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bombycilla[17].
  • Bombycilla's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • Bombycilla's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[19].
  • Bombycilla's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/waxwing[20].
  • Bombycilla's BBC Things ID is recorded as 21aadb37-4306-4a81-aabd-cc365e995e6b[21].
  • Bombycilla's Fauna Europaea ID is recorded as 97151[22].
  • Bombycilla's Dyntaxa ID is recorded as 1001560[23].
  • Bombycilla's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3541226[24].
  • Bombycilla's EPPO Code is recorded as 1BMBYG[25].
  • Bombycilla's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 7427[26].
  • Bombycilla's NBN System Key is recorded as NHMSYS0000530205[27].

Why It Matters

Bombycilla ranks in the top 0.77% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (120 views/month, #1,511 of 195,241).[2] Bombycilla has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Bombycilla is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Fauna Europaea. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Dyntaxa. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . National Biodiversity Network. Retrieved . 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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