Cervus canadensis

species of mammal in the deer family (Cervidae)
Taxon taxon Q180404
Cervus canadensis
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Summary

Cervus canadensis is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.14% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,682 views/month, #267 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • IUCN conservation status: Least Concern[4]
  • Parent taxon: Cervus[5]
  • Taxon name: Cervus canadensis[6]
  • Commons category: Cervus canadensis[7]
  • Start time: -2500000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cervus canadensis[9]
  • Commons gallery: Cervus canadensis[10]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[12], The New Student's Reference Work[13], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14], Meyer’s Universum, Siebzehnter Band[15]
  • This taxon is source of: wapiti meat[16]
  • Short name: C. canadensis[17]
  • Taxon common name: Wapiti[18], Cerf Wapiti[19], Uapití[20], 马鹿[21], North American elk[22], elk[23], vapiti[24]
  • Different from: Alces alces[25]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology[27]
  • Digital Atlas of Idaho URL: https://digitalatlas.cose.isu.edu/bio/mammal/Hoofed/elk/elkfrm.htm[28]
  • Taxon range: Mongolia[29], People's Republic of China[30], Russia[31], Kazakhstan[32], United States[33], Canada[34], Korea[35]

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Identifiers

Cervus canadensis's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 204114[36]. Cervus canadensis's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 1574408[37]. Cervus canadensis's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4446297[38]. Cervus canadensis's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 8600904[39]. Cervus canadensis's ITIS TSN is recorded as 898259[40].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Cervus canadensis include Edmonton Elks[41], a Canadian football team[42], in Canada[43], founded in 1949[44] and Elk Ridge[45], a city in the United States[46], in United States[47], founded in 1971[48].

Why It Matters

Cervus canadensis has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] It is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]

Entities named for it include Edmonton Elks[41], a Canadian football team[42], in Canada[43], founded in 1949[44] and Elk Ridge[45], a city in the United States[46], in United States[47], founded in 1971[48].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [37] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [40] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [38] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . IUCN Red List. wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . list of endangered and protected species of China. wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . ARKive. wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [50] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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