brush-tailed porcupine

genus of mammals
Taxon taxon Q780143
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brush-tailed porcupine

Summary

brush-tailed porcupine is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5 views/month, #1,626 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • brush-tailed porcupine's image is recorded as Porcupine bushmeat in Cameroon.jpg[3].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's taxon rank is recorded as genus[5].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's parent taxon is recorded as Old World porcupine[6].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's taxon name is recorded as Atherurus[7].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's Commons category is recorded as Atherurus[8].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08bbrx[9].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 34835[10].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's ITIS TSN is recorded as 584605[11].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 42015[12].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 158794[13].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2439425[14].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Atherurus[15].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's MSW ID is recorded as 13400043[16].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/brush-tailed-porcupine[17].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's different from is recorded as Sparrmannia[18].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1271403[19].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 44179[20].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's BOLD Systems taxon ID is recorded as 73306[21].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's ADW taxon ID is recorded as Atherurus[22].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as børstehalepiggsvin[23].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's uBio ID is recorded as 106381[24].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's IRMNG ID is recorded as 1288608[25].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's KBpedia ID is recorded as Brush-tailedPorcupine[26].
  • brush-tailed porcupine's Open Tree of Life ID is recorded as 173067[27].

Why It Matters

brush-tailed porcupine ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5 views/month, #1,626 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 10 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] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Barcode of Life Data Systems. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Open Tree of Life reference taxonomy version 3.6. 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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