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Giraffidae

family of mammals
Taxon taxon Q186154
Giraffidae
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Summary

Giraffidae is a taxon[1]. Giraffidae ranks in the top 0.58% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,457 views/month, #1,129 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Giraffoidea[4]
  • Taxon name: Giraffidae[5]
  • Commons category: Giraffidae[6]
  • Taxonomic type: Giraffa[7]
  • Has part(s): horn[8]
  • Start time: -20000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Giraffes[10]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[11]
  • Described by source: Nordisk familjebok[12]
  • This taxon is source of: horn[13]

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Identifiers

Giraffidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 42153[14]. Giraffidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9892[15]. Giraffidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7684[16]. Giraffidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5299[17]. Giraffidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 624920[18].

Why It Matters

Giraffidae has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Giraffidae is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . babel.hathitrust.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . ZooBank. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [15] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [18] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [16] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [17] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i48461
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 02441405-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  2. 22w ago · Mullanur · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Start time → —
    Aliases → —
    Start time → -20000000-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Has part(s) → horn
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Fandom article id: animals:Giraffidae"
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