Merops

genus of birds of the family Meropidae
Taxon taxon Q269203
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Merops

Summary

Merops is a taxon[1]. Merops ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (32 views/month, #1,599 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Merops's image is recorded as Merops apiaster 04.jpg[3].
  • Merops's image is recorded as Southern carmine bee-eater, Merops nubicoides, Savuti marsh, Chobe National Park, Botswana (32421988666).jpg[4].
  • Merops's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Merops's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Merops's parent taxon is recorded as Meropidae[7].
  • Merops's taxon name is recorded as Merops[8].
  • Merops's Commons category is recorded as Merops[9].
  • Merops's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0960f4[10].
  • Merops's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 57420[11].
  • Merops's ITIS TSN is recorded as 553619[12].
  • Merops's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 45513611[13].
  • Merops's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 143840[14].
  • Merops's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2475391[15].
  • Merops's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 206781[16].
  • Merops's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Merops (genus)[17].
  • Merops's LEM ID is recorded as LEM201000011[18].
  • Merops's Commons gallery is recorded as Merops[19].
  • Merops's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • Merops's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • Merops's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • Merops's ZooBank ID for name or act is recorded as 4981F188-79EF-48B6-B297-112F04296DC3[23].
  • Merops's different from is recorded as Merops[24].
  • Merops's Fauna Europaea ID is recorded as 97083[25].
  • Merops's Dyntaxa ID is recorded as 1001541[26].
  • Merops's Plazi ID is recorded as 275889B0-A69F-0723-DCA4-93284B15D5ED[27].

Why It Matters

Merops ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (32 views/month, #1,599 of 195,241).[2] Merops has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Merops is known by 5 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] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . ZooBank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Fauna Europaea. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Dyntaxa. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Plazi. Retrieved . 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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