Handfish

family of fishes
Taxon taxon Q1574997
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Handfish

Summary

Handfish is a taxon[1]. Handfish ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (63 views/month, #1,578 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Handfish's image is recorded as CSIRO ScienceImage 10 The Endangered Spotted Handfish.jpg[3].
  • Handfish's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Handfish's taxon rank is recorded as family[5].
  • Handfish's parent taxon is recorded as Antennarioidei[6].
  • Handfish's parent taxon is recorded as Lophiiformes[7].
  • Handfish's taxon name is recorded as Brachionichthyidae[8].
  • Handfish's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2001003005[9].
  • Handfish's Commons category is recorded as Antennariidae[10].
  • Handfish's start time is recorded as -55000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Handfish's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cdsw3[12].
  • Handfish's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 412621[13].
  • Handfish's ITIS TSN is recorded as 164515[14].
  • Handfish's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 5465[15].
  • Handfish's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 352293[16].
  • Handfish's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3717[17].
  • Handfish's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 267015[18].
  • Handfish's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Brachionichthyidae[19].
  • Handfish's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'handfishes'}[20].
  • Handfish's UMLS CUI is recorded as C2758882[21].
  • Handfish's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 85644[22].
  • Handfish's BOLD Systems taxon ID is recorded as 109339[23].
  • Handfish's IRMNG ID is recorded as 114886[24].
  • Handfish's Australian Faunal Directory ID is recorded as Brachionichthyidae[25].
  • Handfish's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2775951623[26].
  • Handfish's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007532513805171[27].

Why It Matters

Handfish ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (63 views/month, #1,578 of 195,241).[2] Handfish has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Handfish is known by 5 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] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Pisces. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . 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] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Barcode of Life Data Systems. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . National Library of Israel. 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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