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New World porcupine

family of mammals
Taxon taxon Q811633
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Summary

New World porcupine is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.67% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,195 views/month, #1,312 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Erethizontoidea[4]
  • Taxon name: Erethizontidae[5]
  • Subclass of: porcupine[6]
  • Commons category: Erethizontidae[7]
  • Start time: -28400000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Erethizontidae[9]
  • Commons gallery: Erethizontidae[10]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[11]

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Identifiers

New World porcupine's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 44010[12]. New World porcupine's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 30649[13]. New World porcupine's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8691[14]. New World porcupine's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5498[15]. New World porcupine's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180391[16].

Why It Matters

New World porcupine has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 62 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] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [13] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [16] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [14] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [15] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . 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. 15w ago · C960657 · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lex id → træpindsvin
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Lex id: træpindsvin_-_arter"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Temporal range start → Q508633
    Parent taxon → Erethizontoidea
    Start time → —
    Instance of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 17172, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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