elephant seal

Summary

elephant seal is a taxon^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.26% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,273 views/month, #505 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• elephant seal's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• elephant seal is classified at the rank of genus^[4].
• elephant seal is classified within Monachinae^[5].
• Under binomial nomenclature, elephant seal is Mirounga^[6].
• elephant seal's Commons category is recorded as Mirounga^[7].
• elephant seal's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mirounga^[8].
• elephant seal's Commons gallery is recorded as Mirounga^[9].
• elephant seal's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary^[10].
• elephant seal's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[11].
• elephant seal's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[12].
• elephant seal's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[13].
• elephant seal's taxon synonym is recorded as Macrorhinus^[14].
• elephant seal's taxon author citation is recorded as Gray, 1827^[15].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, elephant seal is Mirounga^[6]. It is classified at the rank of genus^[4]. It is classified within Monachinae^[5].

Identifiers

elephant seal's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 41727^[16]. elephant seal's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9714^[17]. elephant seal's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 42397^[18]. elephant seal's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2434812^[19]. elephant seal's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180670^[20].

Discovery and Description

Things named for elephant seal include Elephant Flats^[21], a mudflat^[22].

Why It Matters

elephant seal ranks in the top 0.26% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,273 views/month, #505 of 195,241).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[23] It is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[24]

Entities named for it include Elephant Flats^[21], a mudflat^[22].