pelican

Summary

pelican is a taxon^[1]. pelican ranks in the top 0.29% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,649 views/month, #572 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• pelican's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• pelican is classified at the rank of genus^[4].
• pelican is classified within pelicans^[5].
• pelican's scientific name is Pelecanus^[6].
• pelican's Commons category is recorded as Pelecanus^[7].
• pelican began on -28100000-00-00T00:00:00Z^[8].
• pelican's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Pelecanus^[9].
• pelican's Commons gallery is recorded as Pelecanus^[10].
• pelican's depicted by is recorded as Bronze lectern ''Pelican''^[11].
• pelican's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature^[12].
• pelican's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[13].
• pelican's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus^[14].
• pelican's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Second Edition^[15].
• pelican's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[16].
• pelican's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[17].
• pelican's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng^[18].
• pelican's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[19].
• pelican's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[20].
• pelican's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[21].
• pelican's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedic Lexicon^[22].
• pelican's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[23].

Body

Classification

pelican's scientific name is Pelecanus^[6]. pelican is classified at the rank of genus^[4]. pelican is classified within pelicans^[5].

Identifiers

pelican's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 4324^[24]. pelican's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 33617^[25]. pelican's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 45509058^[26]. pelican's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 10650925^[27]. pelican's ITIS TSN is recorded as 174683^[28].

Discovery and Description

Things named for pelican include Pelecanimimus^[29], a fossil taxon^[30] and Pelican Island, Bridgetown^[31], a former island^[32], in Barbados^[33].

Why It Matters

pelican ranks in the top 0.29% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,649 views/month, #572 of 195,241).^[2] pelican has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] pelican is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]

Entities named for pelican include Pelecanimimus^[29], a fossil taxon^[30] and Pelican Island, Bridgetown^[31], a former island^[32], in Barbados^[33].