Monascus

genus of fungi
Taxon taxon Q5030298
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Monascus

Summary

Monascus is a taxon[1]. Monascus ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14 views/month, #1,618 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Monascus's image is recorded as The botanical magazine = Shokubutsugaku zasshi (1901) (20374970866).jpg[3].
  • Monascus's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Monascus's taxon rank is recorded as genus[5].
  • Monascus's parent taxon is recorded as Monascaceae[6].
  • Monascus's taxon name is recorded as Monascus[7].
  • Monascus's Commons category is recorded as Monascus[8].
  • Monascus's taxonomic type is recorded as Monascus ruber[9].
  • Monascus's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D032741[10].
  • Monascus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cvkxc[11].
  • Monascus's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.300.107.320.500[12].
  • Monascus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 5097[13].
  • Monascus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2597060[14].
  • Monascus's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 100129[15].
  • Monascus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Monascus[16].
  • Monascus's MycoBank taxon name ID is recorded as 3247[17].
  • Monascus's Index Fungorum taxon ID is recorded as 3247[18].
  • Monascus's New Zealand Organisms Register ID is recorded as 6b2a864a-1b85-49c2-af9a-6904b2b8af6b[19].
  • Monascus's EPPO Code is recorded as 1MNSCG[20].
  • Monascus's NBN System Key is recorded as NHMSYS0001489851[21].
  • Monascus's Nederlands Soortenregister ID is recorded as 131034[22].
  • Monascus's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as monascus[23].
  • Monascus's IRMNG ID is recorded as 1261678[24].
  • Monascus's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776534934[25].
  • Monascus's taxon author citation is recorded as Tiegh.[26].
  • Monascus's Belgian Species List ID is recorded as 56144[27].

Why It Matters

Monascus ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14 views/month, #1,618 of 195,241).[2] Monascus has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . MycoBank. 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] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . MycoBank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Index Fungorum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . New Zealand Organisms Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . National Biodiversity Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Biota of New Zealand. id.biodiversity.org.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Belgian Species List. 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.

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