hedgehog

subfamily of small spiny mammals
Taxon taxon Q6120
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hedgehog

Summary

hedgehog is a taxon[1]. hedgehog ranks in the top 0.089% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,072 views/month, #173 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • hedgehog's video is recorded as Erinaceus europaeus, eating noisily 01.ogg[3].
  • hedgehog's image is recorded as Erinaceus europaeus (Linnaeus, 1758).jpg[4].
  • hedgehog's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • hedgehog's taxon rank is recorded as subfamily[6].
  • hedgehog's parent taxon is recorded as Erinaceidae[7].
  • hedgehog's taxon name is recorded as Erinaceinae[8].
  • hedgehog's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85059909[9].
  • hedgehog's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11987425n[10].
  • hedgehog's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00662138[11].
  • hedgehog's Commons category is recorded as Erinaceinae[12].
  • hedgehog's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q150 (fra)-Fabricio Cardenas (Culex)-hérisson.wav[13].
  • hedgehog's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 44302[14].
  • hedgehog's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cl4p[15].
  • hedgehog's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 30577[16].
  • hedgehog's ITIS TSN is recorded as 633423[17].
  • hedgehog's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 67971[18].
  • hedgehog's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hedgehogs[19].
  • hedgehog's MSW ID is recorded as 13600003[20].
  • hedgehog's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 736222[21].
  • hedgehog's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22].
  • hedgehog's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[23].
  • hedgehog's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[24].
  • hedgehog's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[25].
  • hedgehog's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/hedgehog-mammal[26].
  • hedgehog's topic has template is recorded as Template:Erinaceinae[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for hedgehog include Czech hedgehog[28] and Jihlava[29], a river[30], in Czech Republic[31].

Why It Matters

hedgehog ranks in the top 0.089% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,072 views/month, #173 of 195,241).[2] hedgehog has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] hedgehog is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for hedgehog include Czech hedgehog[28] and Jihlava[29], a river[30], in Czech Republic[31].

References

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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] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . 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. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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