Lemuridae

family of primates
Taxon taxon Q186462
Lemuridae
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Lemuridae

Summary

Lemuridae is a taxon[1]. Lemuridae ranks in the top 0.76% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (145 views/month, #1,486 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Lemuridae's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Lemuridae is classified at the rank of family[4].
  • Larvae is named after Lemuridae[5].
  • Lemuridae is classified within Lemuroidea[6].
  • Lemuridae is endemic to Madagascar[7].
  • Lemuridae's scientific name is Lemuridae[8].
  • Lemuridae's Commons category is recorded as Lemuridae[9].
  • The taxonomic type of Lemuridae is Lemur[10].
  • Lemuridae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Lemuridae[11].
  • Lemuridae's Commons gallery is recorded as Lemuridae[12].
  • Lemuridae's code of nomenclature is recorded as International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[13].
  • Lemuridae's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • Lemuridae's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[15].
  • Lemuridae's CITES Appendix is recorded as Appendix I of CITES[16].

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Classification

Lemuridae's scientific name is Lemuridae[8]. Lemuridae is classified at the rank of family[4]. Lemuridae belongs to the parent taxon Lemuroidea[6]. The taxonomic type of Lemuridae is Lemur[10].

Discovery and Description

Larvae is named after Lemuridae[5].

Distribution

Lemuridae is endemic to Madagascar[7].

Identifiers

Lemuridae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 43607[17]. Lemuridae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9445[18]. Lemuridae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1650[19]. Lemuridae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5485[20]. Lemuridae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 572767[21].

Why It Matters

Lemuridae ranks in the top 0.76% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (145 views/month, #1,486 of 195,241).[2] Lemuridae has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Lemuridae is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . nmnhs.com. nmnhs.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . babel.hathitrust.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . ZooBank. wikidata.org.
  9. [18] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [21] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [19] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [20] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] . wikidata.org.
  18. [17] . wikidata.org.
  19. [16] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Cites appendix Appendix I of CITES
    Named after
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id lemuriniai
    Topic's main category Category:Lemuridae
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