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Mesitornis

genus of birds
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Mesitornis

Summary

Mesitornis is a taxon[1]. Mesitornis ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (49 views/month, #1,629 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Mesitornis's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Mesitornis is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Mesitornis belongs to the parent taxon Mesitornithidae[5].
  • Mesitornis is endemic to Madagascar[6].
  • Mesitornis's scientific name is Mesitornis[7].
  • Mesitornis's Commons category is recorded as Mesitornis[8].
  • Mesitornis's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mesitornis[9].

Body

Classification

Mesitornis's scientific name is Mesitornis[7]. Mesitornis is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Mesitornis is classified within Mesitornithidae[5].

Distribution

Mesitornis is endemic to Madagascar[6].

Identifiers

Mesitornis's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 70[10]. Mesitornis's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 54373[11]. Mesitornis's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 89130[12]. Mesitornis's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2474843[13]. Mesitornis's ITIS TSN is recorded as 557897[14].

Why It Matters

Mesitornis ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (49 views/month, #1,629 of 195,241).[2] Mesitornis has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15]

Related Entities

Madagascar

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [14] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12h ago · Debessis · 2026-08-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → genus
    Instance of → —
    Parent taxon → Mesitornithidae
    Aliases → —
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