Crustacea

subphylum of arthropods
Taxon taxon Q25364
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Crustacea

Summary

Crustacea is a taxon[1]. Crustacea ranks in the top 0.2% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,414 views/month, #389 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Crustacea's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Crustacea is classified at the rank of subphylum[4].
  • Crustacea is classified within arthropod[5].
  • Crustacea belongs to the parent taxon Pancrustacea[6].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Crustacea is Crustacea[7].
  • Crustacea's Commons category is recorded as Crustacea[8].
  • Crustacea began on -511000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • Crustacea's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Crustaceans[10].
  • Crustacea's topic's main category is recorded as Q8922920[11].
  • Crustacea's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Crustaceans[12].
  • Crustacea's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[13].
  • Crustacea's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • Crustacea's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • Crustacea's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • Crustacea's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[17].
  • Crustacea's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • Crustacea's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[19].
  • Crustacea's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[20].
  • Crustacea's this taxon is source of is recorded as shellfish[21].
  • Crustacea's main Wikidata property is recorded as P10322[22].
  • Crustacea is commonly known as {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Kreeftachtigen'}[23].
  • Crustacea is commonly known as {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'skorupiaki'}[24].
  • Crustacea is commonly known as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'krepsdyr'}[25].
  • Crustacea is commonly known as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Krebstiere'}[26].
  • Crustacea is commonly known as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'ракообразные'}[27].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Crustacea is Crustacea[7]. Crustacea is classified at the rank of subphylum[4]. Recorded parent taxon include arthropod[5] and Pancrustacea[6]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Kreeftachtigen'}[23], {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'skorupiaki'}[24], {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'krepsdyr'}[25], {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Krebstiere'}[26], {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'ракообразные'}[27], and {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'raki'}[28].

Identifiers

Crustacea's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 85493[29]. Crustacea's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 6657[30]. Crustacea's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 55714582[31]. Crustacea's ITIS TSN is recorded as 83677[32].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Crustacea include cancer[33], a class of disease[34].

Why It Matters

Crustacea ranks in the top 0.2% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,414 views/month, #389 of 195,241).[2] Crustacea has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] Crustacea is known by 82 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for Crustacea include cancer[33], a class of disease[34].

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] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [30] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [32] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [31] . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] . wikidata.org.
  14. [13] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [15] . wikidata.org.
  17. [16] . wikidata.org.
  18. [17] . wikidata.org.
  19. [18] . wikidata.org.
  20. [19] . wikidata.org.
  21. [20] . wikidata.org.
  22. [21] . wikidata.org.
  23. [22] . wikidata.org.
  24. [23] . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [24] . encyklopedia.pwn.pl. encyklopedia.pwn.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [25] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [26] . wikidata.org.
  28. [27] . wikidata.org.
  29. [28] . wikidata.org.
  30. [29] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [33] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [34] . 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. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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