fire eel

species of fish
Taxon taxon Q1409454
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fire eel

Summary

fire eel is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (41 views/month, #1,590 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • fire eel's image is recorded as Ildaal.jpg[3].
  • fire eel's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • fire eel's taxon rank is recorded as species[5].
  • fire eel's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Least Concern[6].
  • fire eel's parent taxon is recorded as Mastacembelus[7].
  • fire eel's taxon name is recorded as Mastacembelus erythrotaenia[8].
  • fire eel's Commons category is recorded as Mastacembelus erythrotaenia[9].
  • fire eel's IUCN taxon ID is recorded as 180888[10].
  • fire eel's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/026txwt[11].
  • fire eel's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 206118[12].
  • fire eel's ITIS TSN is recorded as 172695[13].
  • fire eel's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 224257[14].
  • fire eel's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2351804[15].
  • fire eel's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 1021164[16].
  • fire eel's FishBase species ID is recorded as 12026[17].
  • fire eel's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'M. erythrotaenia'}[18].
  • fire eel's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Fire spiny eel'}[19].
  • fire eel's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'th', 'text': 'ปลากระทิงไฟ'}[20].
  • fire eel's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'th', 'text': 'ปลากระทิงลายดอกไม้'}[21].
  • fire eel's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Spiny Eel'}[22].
  • fire eel's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1223912[23].
  • fire eel's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 187653[24].
  • fire eel's BOLD Systems taxon ID is recorded as 470328[25].
  • fire eel's IRMNG ID is recorded as 10162537[26].
  • fire eel's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Invasion Biology[27].

Why It Matters

fire eel ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (41 views/month, #1,590 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 3 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] . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . FishBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Barcode of Life Data Systems. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. 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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