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Ostracion

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Taxon taxon Q1041768
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Ostracion

Summary

Ostracion is a taxon[1]. Ostracion ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month, #1,618 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ostracion's image is recorded as Ostracion cubicus.JPG[3].
  • Ostracion's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Ostracion's taxon rank is recorded as genus[5].
  • Ostracion's parent taxon is recorded as Ostraciinae[6].
  • Ostracion's taxon name is recorded as Ostracion[7].
  • Ostracion's Commons category is recorded as Ostracion[8].
  • Ostracion's start time is recorded as -56000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • Ostracion's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/026q400[10].
  • Ostracion's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 94238[11].
  • Ostracion's ITIS TSN is recorded as 173249[12].
  • Ostracion's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46570900[13].
  • Ostracion's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 36305[14].
  • Ostracion's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2407938[15].
  • Ostracion's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 206484[16].
  • Ostracion's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ostracion[17].
  • Ostracion's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • Ostracion's ZooBank ID for name or act is recorded as A2034307-721E-4D06-BD18-0E8692C7D17F[19].
  • Ostracion's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Boxfishes'}[20].
  • Ostracion's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Trunkfishes'}[21].
  • Ostracion's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'th', 'text': 'ปลากล่อง'}[22].
  • Ostracion's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'th', 'text': 'ปลาเหลี่ยม'}[23].
  • Ostracion's Plazi ID is recorded as F53F2D94-4298-8888-1317-E3B035099262[24].
  • Ostracion's New Zealand Organisms Register ID is recorded as f58957bd-ba4d-4623-b64e-ff49e42344d7[25].
  • Ostracion's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1042651[26].
  • Ostracion's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47528[27].

Why It Matters

Ostracion ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month, #1,618 of 195,241).[2] Ostracion has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Ostracion is known by 4 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] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . ZooBank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Plazi. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . New Zealand Organisms Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . WikiUMLS: Aligning UMLS to Wikipedia via Cross-lingual Neural Ranking. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . 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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