hammerhead sharks

family of fishes
Taxon taxon Q208490
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hammerhead sharks

Summary

hammerhead sharks is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.32% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,337 views/month, #620 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • hammerhead sharks's image is recorded as Hammerhead shark.jpg[3].
  • hammerhead sharks's image is recorded as Hammerhead Shark - Marko Dimitrijevic.jpg[4].
  • hammerhead sharks's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • hammerhead sharks's taxon rank is recorded as family[6].
  • hammerhead sharks's parent taxon is recorded as Carcharhiniformes[7].
  • hammerhead sharks's parent taxon is recorded as Carcharhinoidei[8].
  • hammerhead sharks's taxon range map image is recorded as Sphyrnidae distribution map.svg[9].
  • hammerhead sharks's taxon name is recorded as Sphyrnidae[10].
  • hammerhead sharks's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85058574[11].
  • hammerhead sharks's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 14598630z[12].
  • hammerhead sharks's Commons category is recorded as Sphyrnidae[13].
  • hammerhead sharks's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 48036[14].
  • hammerhead sharks's start time is recorded as -55800000-00-00T00:00:00Z[15].
  • hammerhead sharks's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03q3l[16].
  • hammerhead sharks's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 376648[17].
  • hammerhead sharks's ITIS TSN is recorded as 160497[18].
  • hammerhead sharks's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1895[19].
  • hammerhead sharks's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 83206[20].
  • hammerhead sharks's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2207[21].
  • hammerhead sharks's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 105694[22].
  • hammerhead sharks's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sphyrnidae[23].
  • hammerhead sharks's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • hammerhead sharks's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[25].
  • hammerhead sharks's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/hammerhead-shark[26].
  • hammerhead sharks's Dyntaxa ID is recorded as 2003989[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for hammerhead sharks include USS Hammerhead[28], a nuclear-powered attack submarine[29].

Why It Matters

hammerhead sharks ranks in the top 0.32% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,337 views/month, #620 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for it include USS Hammerhead[28], a nuclear-powered attack submarine[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] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Dyntaxa. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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