nekton

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nekton

Summary

nekton is an animal group[1]. nekton draws 179 Wikipedia views per month (animal_group category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • nekton's instance of is recorded as animal group[3].
  • nekton's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85090680[4].
  • nekton's subclass of is recorded as Animalia[5].
  • nekton's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00568073[6].
  • nekton's opposite of is recorded as plankton[7].
  • nekton's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01h3kt[8].
  • nekton's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • nekton's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[10].
  • nekton's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/nekton[11].
  • nekton's NALT ID is recorded as 68692[12].
  • nekton's name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'nekton'}[13].
  • nekton's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as nekton[14].
  • nekton's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as nekton[15].
  • nekton's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 62147785[16].
  • nekton's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007563188105171[17].
  • nekton's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 01386954-n[18].
  • nekton's Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry is recorded as nekton[19].
  • nekton's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C62147785[20].
  • nekton's Wellcome Collection concept ID is recorded as tx59m7jg[21].
  • nekton's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/e54d4881-5229-4e76-9ac5-3209dbc49fb0[22].

Why It Matters

nekton draws 179 Wikipedia views per month (animal_group category, ranking #1 of 5).[2] nekton has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] nekton is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Library of Congress. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). nekton. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/nekton
MLA “nekton.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/nekton.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_nekton_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{nekton}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/nekton}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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