Malassezia furfur

species of fungus
Taxon taxon Q311343
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Malassezia furfur

Summary

Malassezia furfur is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.77% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (122 views/month, #1,509 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Malassezia furfur's image is recorded as Malassezia furfur in skin scale from a patient with tinea versicolor PHIL 3938 lores.jpg[3].
  • Malassezia furfur's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Malassezia furfur's taxon rank is recorded as species[5].
  • Malassezia furfur's parent taxon is recorded as Malassezia[6].
  • Malassezia furfur's taxon name is recorded as Malassezia furfur[7].
  • Malassezia furfur's Commons category is recorded as Malassezia furfur[8].
  • Malassezia furfur's has basionym is recorded as Microsporum furfur[9].
  • Malassezia furfur's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 55194[10].
  • Malassezia furfur's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 248533[11].
  • Malassezia furfur's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2518103[12].
  • Malassezia furfur's MycoBank taxon name ID is recorded as 121793[13].
  • Malassezia furfur's Index Fungorum taxon ID is recorded as 121793[14].
  • Malassezia furfur's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'M. furfur'}[15].
  • Malassezia furfur's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '粃糠狀鱗斑黴'}[16].
  • Malassezia furfur's Dyntaxa ID is recorded as 6009752[17].
  • Malassezia furfur's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1q6jzb4f5[18].
  • Malassezia furfur's New Zealand Organisms Register ID is recorded as f1d9735d-b063-410b-be80-ec5b7e7a77ea[19].
  • Malassezia furfur's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0032030[20].
  • Malassezia furfur's TaiBNET ID is recorded as 144466[21].
  • Malassezia furfur's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 450987[22].
  • Malassezia furfur's TAXREF ID is recorded as 905311[23].
  • Malassezia furfur's NBN System Key is recorded as NHMSYS0001488815[24].
  • Malassezia furfur's Nederlands Soortenregister ID is recorded as 134093[25].
  • Malassezia furfur's GenBank assembly accession number is recorded as GCA_001264865.1[26].
  • Malassezia furfur's GenBank assembly accession number is recorded as GCA_001264875.1[27].

Why It Matters

Malassezia furfur ranks in the top 0.77% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (122 views/month, #1,509 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . MycoBank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Index Fungorum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Dyntaxa. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . New Zealand Organisms Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . WikiUMLS: Aligning UMLS to Wikipedia via Cross-lingual Neural Ranking. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . TAXREF v12.0. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . National Biodiversity Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Nederlands Soortenregister. 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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