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Characidae

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Taxon taxon Q625352
Characidae
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Characidae

Summary

Characidae is a taxon[1]. Characidae ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (44 views/month, #1,587 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Characidae's image is recorded as Megalamphodussweglesi01.jpg[3].
  • Characidae's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Characidae's taxon rank is recorded as family[5].
  • Characidae's parent taxon is recorded as Characoidei[6].
  • Characidae's parent taxon is recorded as Characiformes[7].
  • Characidae's taxon name is recorded as Characidae[8].
  • Characidae's Commons category is recorded as Characidae[9].
  • Characidae's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D060126[10].
  • Characidae's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0d241[11].
  • Characidae's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.050.150.900.493.130.150[12].
  • Characidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7992[13].
  • Characidae's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph323376[14].
  • Characidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 162848[15].
  • Characidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8224[16].
  • Characidae's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 265775[17].
  • Characidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 7201[18].
  • Characidae's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 151961[19].
  • Characidae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Characidae[20].
  • Characidae's code of nomenclature is recorded as International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[21].
  • Characidae's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0270445[22].
  • Characidae's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/characin[23].
  • Characidae's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'karpelaksfamilien'}[24].
  • Characidae's Plazi ID is recorded as E17A4F2C-FFCB-FFC1-FF68-490BFE27FAFA[25].
  • Characidae's Plazi ID is recorded as A31587C7-FFEF-1242-36BD-F94CFE8AB46B[26].
  • Characidae's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4729957[27].

Why It Matters

Characidae ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (44 views/month, #1,587 of 195,241).[2] Characidae has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Characidae is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Catalog of Fishes. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Pisces. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Plazi. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Plazi. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . 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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