Alcedinidae

family of birds
Taxon taxon Q8154335
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Alcedinidae

Summary

Alcedinidae is a taxon[1]. Alcedinidae ranks in the top 0.24% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,701 views/month, #474 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Alcedinidae's video is recorded as Kingfisher catching fish, eating, defecating and flying in Kõrvemaa, Estonia (October 2022).webm[3].
  • Alcedinidae's image is recorded as Sacred kingfisher nov08.jpg[4].
  • Alcedinidae's image is recorded as SL Bundala NP asv2020-01 img20.jpg[5].
  • Alcedinidae's instance of is recorded as taxon[6].
  • Alcedinidae's taxon rank is recorded as family[7].
  • Alcedinidae's parent taxon is recorded as Alcedines[8].
  • Alcedinidae's taxon name is recorded as Alcedinidae[9].
  • Alcedinidae's GND ID is recorded as 4254216-9[10].
  • Alcedinidae's subclass of is recorded as water bird[11].
  • Alcedinidae's Commons category is recorded as Alcedinidae[12].
  • Alcedinidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8937[13].
  • Alcedinidae's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph436715[14].
  • Alcedinidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 178104[15].
  • Alcedinidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7975[16].
  • Alcedinidae's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 39386[17].
  • Alcedinidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2984[18].
  • Alcedinidae's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 196048[19].
  • Alcedinidae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Alcedinidae[20].
  • Alcedinidae's Commons gallery is recorded as Alcedinidae[21].
  • Alcedinidae's Iconclass notation is recorded as 25F39(KINGFISHER)[22].
  • Alcedinidae's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[23].
  • Alcedinidae's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[24].
  • Alcedinidae's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[25].
  • Alcedinidae's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[26].
  • Alcedinidae's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Alcedinidae include Shaldag-class fast patrol boat[28], a boat class[29] and Feicui Dam[30], a double curvature arch dam[31], in Taiwan[32], founded in 1987[33].

Why It Matters

Alcedinidae ranks in the top 0.24% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,701 views/month, #474 of 195,241).[2] Alcedinidae has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] Alcedinidae is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Entities named for Alcedinidae include Shaldag-class fast patrol boat[28], a boat class[29] and Feicui Dam[30], a double curvature arch dam[31], in Taiwan[32], founded in 1987[33].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . 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. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . 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. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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