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Hyaenidae

family of mammals in the order Carnivora
Taxon taxon Q42046

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
taxon
Code of nomenclature
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[9]
Described by source
Pauly–Wissowa, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
Different from
African wild dog[19]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Invasion Biology[22]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21]
Parent taxon
Herpestoidea, Aeluroidea, Feliformia[3][4][5]
Permanent duplicated item
Wikidata item[20]
Start time
-26000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8]
Taxon common name
hyenas, hyenefamilien[17][18]
Taxon name
Hyaenidae[6]
Taxon rank
family[2]
Taxonomic type
Hyaena[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en hyaenid en hyenas en hyaenas en Hyaenidae en hyaenids ar الضباع ar الضبع ar ضبعيات ar الضِباع ar ضبع cs hyenovité cs Hyaenidae cs hyenovití da Hyæne da Hyaeninae da Protelinae da Hyaenidae da Hyæner de Hyäne de Strandwolf
🔖 Identifiers · 63
Library of Congress authority ID
sh93004306
GND ID
4137921-4
OpenAlex ID
C2779682765
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Proteles cristatus1.jpg ↗
ADW taxon ID
Hyaenidae
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300310344
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/11661
BBC Things ID
cd43aee4-b7d3-4419-a49f-044b6ef5f3dd
BNCF Thesaurus ID
10677
BOLD Systems taxon ID
359596
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
125368655
Biblissima authority ID
Poranopsis
Show all 63 identifiers +51
BioLib taxon ID
2119
Catalogue of Life ID
B7B
Dewey Decimal Classification
599.743
Encyclopedia of Life ID
7672
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
animal/Hyaenidae, animal/hyena
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
hyene
Exact match
wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu, wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu
Fossilworks taxon ID
41020
Freebase ID
/m/03m8_
GBIF taxon ID
5306
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
hiena
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0114339
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
hyener
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2359649
Harper's tag
hyenas
INaturalist taxon ID
41884
IRMNG ID
104702
ITIS TSN
621756
Iconclass notation
25F23(HYENA)
Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID
107195
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
hyenas
Jewish Encyclopedia ID
7964
KBpedia ID
Hyena
Klexikon article ID
Hyänen
Lex ID
hyæner
MSW ID
14000682
MeSH descriptor ID
D045968
MeSH tree code
B01.050.150.900.649.313.750.377.937
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2779682765
Museum-digital tag ID
11641
NALT ID
30092
NCBI taxonomy ID
9676
NDL Authority ID
00562779
NL CR AUT ID
joguem natuburguer 2,ela esta la
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
taxon/ED8FE9D5-417C-495B-94F8-367E60BD7DF1
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007563410405171
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
736876
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3911604
Open Tree of Life ID
397138
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrtshPBD9f4VY, pcrtEPI3LkW9Q2
Paleobiology Database taxon ID
41020
Quora topic ID
hyenas
RKD thesaurus ID
69920
Topic's main category
Category:Hyenas, Category:Hyaenidae
Vikidia article ID
es:Hiena, fr:Hyène
Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
hieniniai
WikiKids ID
Hyena's
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
02119787-n
YSO ID
20579
Yale LUX ID
concept/21c1fafb-27a6-4e38-bd63-483955841523
ZooBank ID for name or act
5C9C448E-18C0-4576-AD60-95BC12F13282

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🔗 Connections
← Parent taxon 9
Pachycrocuta, Chasmaporthetes, Crocuta, Hyaeninae, Ictitherium, Adcrocuta, Proteles, Protictitherium +1 more
Described by source 5
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
Parent taxon 3
Feliformia, Herpestoidea, Aeluroidea
Code of nomenclature 1
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
Different from 1
African wild dog
Instance of 1
taxon
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Taxon rank 1
family
Taxonomic type 1
Hyaena
Topic's main category 1
Category:Hyenas
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Hyenas
← Different from 1
African wild dog
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Summary

Hyaenidae is a taxon[1].

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · ~2026-47559-96 · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    NL CR AUT ID → joguem natuburguer 2,ela esta la
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ NL CR AUT ID: joguem natuburguer 2,ela esta la"
  2. 15w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Poranopsis
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q292520, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  3. 15w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish Encyclopedia ID → 7964
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish Encyclopedia ID: 7964, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167479963|HYENA (#167479963)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #mi"
  4. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → hyenas
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: hyenas, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289933683|hyenas (#289933683)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
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