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Cerastes

genus of reptiles
Taxon taxon Q73178
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Cerastes

Summary

Cerastes is a taxon[1]. Cerastes ranks in the top 0.8% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (85 views/month, #1,555 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cerastes's image is recorded as Cerastes cerastes 1.jpg[3].
  • Cerastes's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Cerastes's taxon rank is recorded as genus[5].
  • Cerastes's parent taxon is recorded as Viperinae[6].
  • Cerastes's taxon name is recorded as Cerastes[7].
  • Cerastes's Commons category is recorded as Cerastes[8].
  • Cerastes's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D000097189[9].
  • Cerastes's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b9d84[10].
  • Cerastes's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.050.050.286.875.875.875.250[11].
  • Cerastes's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.050.150.900.833.672.125.937.875.250[12].
  • Cerastes's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.050.150.900.833.672.562.875.875.250[13].
  • Cerastes's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8696[14].
  • Cerastes's ITIS TSN is recorded as 634421[15].
  • Cerastes's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 19550[16].
  • Cerastes's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2444742[17].
  • Cerastes's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cerastes[18].
  • Cerastes's Commons gallery is recorded as Cerastes[19].
  • Cerastes's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • Cerastes's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • Cerastes's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/Cerastes[22].
  • Cerastes's EPPO Code is recorded as 1KERSG[23].
  • Cerastes's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 30809[24].
  • Cerastes's ADW taxon ID is recorded as Cerastes[25].
  • Cerastes's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as hornslanger[26].
  • Cerastes's Open Tree of Life ID is recorded as 785612[27].

Why It Matters

Cerastes ranks in the top 0.8% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (85 views/month, #1,555 of 195,241).[2] Cerastes has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Cerastes is known by 4 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] ↑ . A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . 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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