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Cancer

Summary

Cancer is a taxon[1]. Cancer ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (144 views/month, #1,594 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cancer's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Cancer is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Cancer belongs to the parent taxon Cancridae[5].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Cancer is Cancer[6].
  • Cancer's Commons category is recorded as Cancer (Brachyura)[7].
  • Cancer's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cancer (Cancridae)[8].
  • Cancer's taxon synonym is recorded as Platycarcinus[9].

Body

Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Cancer is Cancer[6]. Cancer is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Cancer is classified within Cancridae[5].

Identifiers

Cancer's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47827[10]. Cancer's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 6754[11]. Cancer's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46505904[12]. Cancer's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2204488[13]. Cancer's ITIS TSN is recorded as 98671[14].

Why It Matters

Cancer ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (144 views/month, #1,594 of 195,241).[2] Cancer has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . 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. [11] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [14] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [13] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → genus
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Cancer (Cancridae)
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007530228405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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