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Escherichia coli

enteric, rod shaped, gram-negative bacterium
Taxon taxon Q25419
Escherichia coli
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Summary

Escherichia coli is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.14% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23,321 views/month, #272 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: model organism[3]
  • Taxon rank: species[4]
  • Parent taxon: Escherichia[5]
  • Taxon name: Escherichia coli[6]
  • Commons category: Escherichia coli[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Escherichia coli[8]
  • Taxon synonym: Bacillus coli communis[9]
  • Topic has template: Template:Escherichia coli[10], Q22865440[11]
  • This taxon is source of: Токсины Коли[12]
  • Short name: E. coli[13]
  • Taxon common name: 大腸埃希氏菌[14]
  • LPSN URL: https://lpsn.dsmz.de/species/escherichia-coli[15]
  • Gram staining: gram-negative bacteria[16]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q25681522[17]

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Identifiers

Escherichia coli's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 450837[18]. Escherichia coli's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 562[19]. Escherichia coli's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 972688[20]. Escherichia coli's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 6110934[21]. Escherichia coli's ITIS TSN is recorded as 285[22].

Why It Matters

Escherichia coli has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 138 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [19] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [22] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [20] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [21] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 22h ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'bg', 'bn', 'bo', 'bs', 'ca
    Sitelink count → 92
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id → E._coli
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||nb */ SML ID E._coli deprecated (now SNL E._coli), SNL ID E._coli, other names from Store medisinske leksikon ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/B"
  2. 8w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14439 → 000489
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 01370979-n
    Interlingual index id → i42510
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14439: 000489"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    This taxon is source of → Токсины Коли
    Gram staining → gram-negative bacteria
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Invasion Biology
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 18582, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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