Candida albicans

species of fungus
Taxon taxon Q310443
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Summary

Candida albicans is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.62% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,102 views/month, #1,207 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • Parent taxon: Candida[4]
  • Taxon name: Candida albicans[5]
  • Commons category: Candida albicans[6]
  • Has basionym: Oidium albicans[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Candida albicans[8]
  • Commons gallery: Candida albicans[9]
  • Short name: C. albicans[10]
  • Taxon common name: 白色念珠菌[11]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology[12]
  • Taxon author citation: (C.P.Robin) Berkhout[13]

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Identifiers

Candida albicans's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 895618[14]. Candida albicans's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 5476[15]. Candida albicans's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1013921[16]. Candida albicans's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2599597[17]. Candida albicans's ITIS TSN is recorded as 194598[18].

Why It Matters

Candida albicans has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Australian Fungi ID. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [15] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [18] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [16] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [17] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [13] ↑ . Australian Fungi ID. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i105448
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 13100327-n
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  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007218-Candida-albicans
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0007218-Candida-albicans, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → species
    Instance of → —
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Invasion Biology
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007283369305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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