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Hydrochoerus

genus of mammals
Taxon taxon Q902454
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Hydrochoerus

Summary

Hydrochoerus is a taxon[1]. Hydrochoerus ranks in the top 0.68% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (300 views/month, #1,331 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hydrochoerus's image is recorded as Carpincho en el Parque Nacional El Palmar (cropped).jpg[3].
  • Hydrochoerus's image is recorded as Hydrochoerus isthmius 19742666 (cropped).jpg[4].
  • Hydrochoerus's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Hydrochoerus's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Hydrochoerus's parent taxon is recorded as Hydrochoerinae[7].
  • Hydrochoerus's taxon range map image is recorded as Hydrochoerus distribution map.png[8].
  • Hydrochoerus's taxon name is recorded as Hydrochoerus[9].
  • Hydrochoerus's Commons category is recorded as Hydrochoerus[10].
  • Hydrochoerus's taxonomic type is recorded as Sus hydrochaeris[11].
  • Hydrochoerus's start time is recorded as -3600000-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Hydrochoerus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0fqmlp9[13].
  • Hydrochoerus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 10148[14].
  • Hydrochoerus's ITIS TSN is recorded as 825248[15].
  • Hydrochoerus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 42014[16].
  • Hydrochoerus's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 42128[17].
  • Hydrochoerus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5429068[18].
  • Hydrochoerus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hydrochoerus[19].
  • Hydrochoerus's MSW ID is recorded as 13400217[20].
  • Hydrochoerus's ZooBank ID for name or act is recorded as F5878CEF-C755-4C85-98B8-930BD28EF28C[21].
  • Hydrochoerus's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1271313[22].
  • Hydrochoerus's EPPO Code is recorded as 1HYUSG[23].
  • Hydrochoerus's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 71855[24].
  • Hydrochoerus's BOLD Systems taxon ID is recorded as 73384[25].
  • Hydrochoerus's ADW taxon ID is recorded as Hydrochoerus[26].
  • Hydrochoerus's uBio ID is recorded as 4200331[27].

Why It Matters

Hydrochoerus ranks in the top 0.68% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (300 views/month, #1,331 of 195,241).[2] Hydrochoerus has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Hydrochoerus is known by 15 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Opinion 1894 Regnum Animale , Ed. 2 (M. J. Brisson, 1762): rejected for Nomenciatural Purposes, with the conservation of the Mammalian generic names Philander (Marsupialia), Pteropus (Chiroptera), Glis, Cuniculus and Hydrochoerus (Rodentia), Meles.... wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 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] ↑ . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Barcode of Life Data Systems. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . 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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