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Hammer-headed bat

megabat widely distributed in West and Central Africa
Taxon taxon Q304912
Hammer-headed bat
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Hammer-headed bat

Summary

Hammer-headed bat is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.76% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (234 views/month, #1,482 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hammer-headed bat's image is recorded as ZygaenocephalusLabrosusFord.jpg[3].
  • Hammer-headed bat's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Hammer-headed bat's taxon rank is recorded as species[5].
  • Hammer-headed bat's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Least Concern[6].
  • Hammer-headed bat's parent taxon is recorded as Hypsignathus[7].
  • Hammer-headed bat's taxon range map image is recorded as Hammer-headed Bat area.png[8].
  • Hammer-headed bat's taxon name is recorded as Hypsignathus monstrosus[9].
  • Hammer-headed bat's Commons category is recorded as Hypsignathus monstrosus[10].
  • Hammer-headed bat's IUCN taxon ID is recorded as 10734[11].
  • Hammer-headed bat's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/026_5dx[12].
  • Hammer-headed bat's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 448084[13].
  • Hammer-headed bat's ITIS TSN is recorded as 631582[14].
  • Hammer-headed bat's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 327349[15].
  • Hammer-headed bat's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2432958[16].
  • Hammer-headed bat's MSW ID is recorded as 13800132[17].
  • Hammer-headed bat's natural reservoir of is recorded as Orthoebolavirus zairense[18].
  • Hammer-headed bat's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'H. monstrosus'}[19].
  • Hammer-headed bat's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Hammer-headed Fruit Bat'}[20].
  • Hammer-headed bat's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Hammerkopfflughund'}[21].
  • Hammer-headed bat's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Hammerkopf-Flughund'}[22].
  • Hammer-headed bat's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Hammerkopf'}[23].
  • Hammer-headed bat's Xeno-canto species ID is recorded as Hypsignathus-monstrosus[24].
  • Hammer-headed bat's UMLS CUI is recorded as C2281584[25].
  • Hammer-headed bat's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 40843[26].
  • Hammer-headed bat's NE.se ID is recorded as hypsignathus[27].

Why It Matters

Hammer-headed bat ranks in the top 0.76% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (234 views/month, #1,482 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Fruit bats as reservoirs of Ebola virus. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . WikiUMLS: Aligning UMLS to Wikipedia via Cross-lingual Neural Ranking. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . 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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