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Hippopotamidae

family of mammals
Taxon taxon Q213336
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Summary

Hippopotamidae is a taxon[1]. Hippopotamidae ranks in the top 0.62% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,833 views/month, #1,206 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Artiodactyla[4], Hippopotamoidea[5]
  • Taxon name: Hippopotamidae[6]
  • Commons category: Hippopotamidae[7]
  • Taxonomic type: Hippopotamus[8]
  • Temporal range start: Miocene[9]
  • Start time: -16000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Hippopotamuses[11]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[12]
  • Topic has template: Q25720559[13]

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Identifiers

Hippopotamidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 42146[14]. Hippopotamidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9831[15]. Hippopotamidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7683[16]. Hippopotamidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5300[17]. Hippopotamidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 624917[18].

Why It Matters

Hippopotamidae has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Hippopotamidae is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . babel.hathitrust.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . ZooBank. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [15] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [18] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [16] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [17] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · ~2026-54140-65 · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon range map image → Hippopotamidae distribution.png
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  2. 18d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'avk', 'ban', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'ceb', 'c
    Gnd id → 7594508-3
    Sitelink count → 75
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  3. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i48217
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  4. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Bianca Balti
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  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
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    Taxonomic type → Hippopotamus
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    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 12889, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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