mountain beaver

Summary

mountain beaver is a taxon^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.7% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28 views/month, #1,376 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• mountain beaver's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• mountain beaver's instance of is recorded as living fossil^[4].
• mountain beaver is classified at the rank of species^[5].
• mountain beaver is classified within Aplodontia^[6].
• mountain beaver's scientific name is Aplodontia rufa^[7].
• mountain beaver's Commons category is recorded as Aplodontia rufa^[8].
• mountain beaver's color is recorded as grey^[9].
• mountain beaver's color is recorded as brown^[10].
• mountain beaver's temporal range start is recorded as Late Pleistocene^[11].
• mountain beaver's main food source is recorded as fern^[12].
• mountain beaver's facet of is recorded as forest management^[13].
• mountain beaver's facet of is recorded as reforestation^[14].
• mountain beaver's contributing factor of is recorded as Schälung^[15].
• mountain beaver's has characteristic is recorded as asociality^[16].
• mountain beaver's has characteristic is recorded as short^[17].
• mountain beaver's has characteristic is recorded as opposable thumb^[18].
• mountain beaver's has characteristic is recorded as browsing^[19].
• mountain beaver's has characteristic is recorded as fossorial^[20].
• mountain beaver's has characteristic is recorded as viviparity^[21].
• mountain beaver's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'A. rufa'}^[22].
• mountain beaver is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Mountain Beaver'}^[23].
• mountain beaver is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Sewellel'}^[24].
• mountain beaver is commonly known as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Stummelschwanzhörnchen'}^[25].
• mountain beaver is commonly known as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Biberhörnchen'}^[26].
• mountain beaver is commonly known as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Bergbiber'}^[27].

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Classification

mountain beaver's scientific name is Aplodontia rufa^[7]. It is classified at the rank of species^[5]. It belongs to the parent taxon Aplodontia^[6]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Mountain Beaver'}^[23], {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Sewellel'}^[24], {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Stummelschwanzhörnchen'}^[25], {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Biberhörnchen'}^[26], and {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Bergbiber'}^[27].

Identifiers

mountain beaver's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 43736^[28]. mountain beaver's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 51342^[29]. mountain beaver's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 327978^[30]. mountain beaver's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2439690^[31]. mountain beaver's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180133^[32].

Why It Matters

mountain beaver ranks in the top 0.7% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28 views/month, #1,376 of 195,241).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[33] It is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[34]