Giraffa

Summary

Giraffa is a taxon^[1]. Giraffa ranks in the top 0.031% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,942 views/month, #61 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• Giraffa's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• Giraffa is classified at the rank of genus^[4].
• Giraffa belongs to the parent taxon Giraffina^[5].
• Giraffa's scientific name is Giraffa^[6].
• Giraffa's Commons category is recorded as Giraffa^[7].
• The taxonomic type of Giraffa is Cervus camelopardalis^[8].
• Giraffa's Unicode character is recorded as 🦒^[9].
• Giraffa comprises heart^[10].
• Giraffa began on -11610000-00-00T00:00:00Z^[11].
• Giraffa's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Giraffa^[12].
• Giraffa's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[13].
• Giraffa's described by source is recorded as Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste^[14].
• Giraffa's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[15].
• Giraffa's described by source is recorded as The American Cyclopædia^[16].
• Giraffa's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa^[17].
• Giraffa dates from the giraffe^[18].
• Giraffa's habitat is recorded as savanna^[19].
• Giraffa's habitat is recorded as woodland^[20].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Giraffa is Giraffa^[6]. Giraffa is classified at the rank of genus^[4]. Giraffa belongs to the parent taxon Giraffina^[5]. The taxonomic type of Giraffa is Cervus camelopardalis^[8].

Identifiers

Giraffa's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 42156^[21]. Giraffa's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9893^[22]. Giraffa's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 38813^[23]. Giraffa's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2441204^[24]. Giraffa's ITIS TSN is recorded as 898184^[25].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Giraffa include Zarafasaura^[26], a fossil taxon^[27] and giraffe piano^[28].

Why It Matters

Giraffa ranks in the top 0.031% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,942 views/month, #61 of 195,241).^[2] Giraffa has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[29] Giraffa is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[30]

Entities named for Giraffa include Zarafasaura^[26], a fossil taxon^[27] and giraffe piano^[28].