Hamster

subfamily of rodents (Cricetinae)
Taxon taxon Q6573
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Hamster

Summary

Hamster is a taxon[1]. Hamster ranks in the top 0.061% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,781 views/month, #119 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hamster's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Hamster is classified at the rank of subfamily[4].
  • Hamster belongs to the parent taxon Muridae[5].
  • Hamster belongs to the parent taxon Cricetidae[6].
  • Hamster's scientific name is Cricetinae[7].
  • Hamster is a type of Cricetidae[8].
  • Hamster's Commons category is recorded as Cricetinae[9].
  • Hamster's Unicode character is recorded as 🐹[10].
  • Hamster's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hamsters[11].
  • Hamster's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • Hamster's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Hamster's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • Hamster's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • Hamster's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[16].
  • Hamster's exact match is recorded as http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/02342885-n[17].
  • Hamster's heart rate is recorded as {'unit': 'Q105839488', 'amount': '+450'}[18].
  • Hamster's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19].
  • Hamster's homonymous taxon is recorded as Cricetinae[20].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Hamster is Cricetinae[7]. Hamster is classified at the rank of subfamily[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Muridae[5] and Cricetidae[6].

Identifiers

Hamster's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 10026[21]. Hamster's ITIS TSN is recorded as 632545[22].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Hamster include xHamster[23], a dot-com company[24], founded in 2007[25].

Why It Matters

Hamster ranks in the top 0.061% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,781 views/month, #119 of 195,241).[2] Hamster has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] Hamster is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Entities named for Hamster include xHamster[23], a dot-com company[24], founded in 2007[25].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [21] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [22] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] . Resting Heart Rates. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] . wikidata.org.
  20. [20] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] . 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. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14h ago · Leptictidium · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon Muridae, Cricetidae
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P171]]: [[Q25916]]"
  2. 20h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Temporal range start Q6841498
    Parent taxon Muridae, Cricetidae
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 19292, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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