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Echinidae

family of echinoderms
Taxon taxon Q528635
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Echinidae

Summary

Echinidae is a taxon[1]. Echinidae ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15 views/month, #1,623 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Echinidae's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Echinidae is classified at the rank of family[4].
  • Echinidae is classified within Echinidea[5].
  • Echinidae's scientific name is Echinidae[6].
  • Echinidae's Commons category is recorded as Echinidae[7].
  • The taxonomic type of Echinidae is Echinus[8].
  • Echinidae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Echinidae[9].
  • Echinidae's taxon synonym is recorded as Echininae[10].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Echinidae is Echinidae[6]. Echinidae is classified at the rank of family[4]. Echinidae belongs to the parent taxon Echinidea[5]. The taxonomic type of Echinidae is Echinus[8].

Identifiers

Echinidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 48034[11]. Echinidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7676[12]. Echinidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1989[13]. Echinidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5597[14]. Echinidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 157940[15].

Why It Matters

Echinidae ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15 views/month, #1,623 of 195,241).[2] Echinidae has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Echinidae is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [12] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [15] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [13] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [14] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxonomic type → Echinus
    Parent taxon → Echinidea
    Instance of → taxon
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007546574005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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