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Mytilus

genus of edible saltwater mussels
Taxon taxon Q21132
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Mytilus

Summary

Mytilus is a taxon[1]. Mytilus ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34 views/month, #1,601 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Mytilus's image is recorded as Miesmuscheln-2.jpg[3].
  • Mytilus's image is recorded as CornishMussels.JPG[4].
  • Mytilus's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Mytilus's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Mytilus's parent taxon is recorded as Mytilidae[7].
  • Mytilus's taxon name is recorded as Mytilus[8].
  • Mytilus's Commons category is recorded as Mytilus[9].
  • Mytilus's taxonomic type is recorded as Mytilus edulis[10].
  • Mytilus's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D049878[11].
  • Mytilus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04gtsjf[12].
  • Mytilus's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.050.500.644.080.537.500[13].
  • Mytilus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 6548[14].
  • Mytilus's ITIS TSN is recorded as 79452[15].
  • Mytilus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46466839[16].
  • Mytilus's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 16392[17].
  • Mytilus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2285679[18].
  • Mytilus's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 138228[19].
  • Mytilus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mytilus (bivalve)[20].
  • Mytilus's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21].
  • Mytilus's ZooBank ID for name or act is recorded as 6F89285A-A4AA-4E41-8409-38B2550251E4[22].
  • Mytilus's Dyntaxa ID is recorded as 1005168[23].
  • Mytilus's Plazi ID is recorded as A9CDF819-3F18-1DAB-E117-C1302E551CFC[24].
  • Mytilus's Plazi ID is recorded as 933C3E2E-FFE7-FF89-FDD3-0556FF2B504F[25].
  • Mytilus's New Zealand Organisms Register ID is recorded as 7ec27d2d-e272-43be-b486-d4d0240466c1[26].
  • Mytilus's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0027144[27].

Why It Matters

Mytilus ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34 views/month, #1,601 of 195,241).[2] Mytilus has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Mytilus is known by 12 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . ZooBank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Dyntaxa. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Plazi. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Plazi. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . New Zealand Organisms Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . UMLS 2023. 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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