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Muraenidae

family of fishes
Taxon taxon Q35076
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Summary

Muraenidae is a taxon[1]. Muraenidae ranks in the top 0.35% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,757 views/month, #681 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Anguilliformes[4]
  • Taxon name: Muraenidae[5]
  • Commons category: Muraenidae[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Muraenidae[7]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[8]
  • Described by source: New International Encyclopedia[9], Pauly–Wissowa[10]
  • Taxon common name: murenefamilien[11]

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Identifiers

Muraenidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47313[12]. Muraenidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 46660[13]. Muraenidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8287[14]. Muraenidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2953[15]. Muraenidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 161160[16].

Why It Matters

Muraenidae has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] Muraenidae is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Pisces. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [13] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [16] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [14] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [15] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 21d ago · THEbotIT bot · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → New International Encyclopedia, Pauly–Wissowa
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'az', 'ban', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Described by source: Pauly–Wissowa, Add reference to a lexicon article."
  2. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → morays
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: morays, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289943755|morays (#289943755)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  3. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → AG für Bahn-Bau und -Betrieb
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q292742, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → family
    Instance of → —
    Parent taxon → Anguilliformes
    Instance of → taxon
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007546069505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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