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Pen-tailed treeshrew

species of mammal
Taxon taxon Q747125
Pen-tailed treeshrew
Joseph Wolf (1820 – 1899) · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

Pen-tailed treeshrew is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.75% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (166 views/month, #1,465 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's image is recorded as Ptilocercus lowii.jpg[3].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's taxon rank is recorded as species[5].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Least Concern[6].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's parent taxon is recorded as Ptilocercus[7].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's taxon range map image is recorded as Pen-tailed Treeshrew area.png[8].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's taxon name is recorded as Ptilocercus lowii[9].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's Commons category is recorded as Ptilocercus lowii[10].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's IUCN taxon ID is recorded as 41491[11].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02wb2kf[12].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 320338[13].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's ITIS TSN is recorded as 573232[14].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 289799[15].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 234229[16].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2436257[17].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ptilocercus lowii[18].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's MSW ID is recorded as 11900070[19].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/pen-tailed-tree-shrew[20].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's taxon synonym is recorded as Ptilocercus lowi[21].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'P. lowii'}[22].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Pen-tailed Treeshrew'}[23].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Pen-tailed Tree Shrew'}[24].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Feather-tailed Tree Shrew'}[25].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Federschwanz'}[26].
  • Pen-tailed treeshrew's CITES Species+ ID is recorded as 6731[27].

Why It Matters

Pen-tailed treeshrew ranks in the top 0.75% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (166 views/month, #1,465 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 6 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] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Species+. 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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  1. 23w ago · PieterJanR · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon synonym → Ptilocercus lowi
    Parent taxon → Ptilocercus
    Iucn conservation status → Least Concern
    Time period → Q25445
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Taxon synonym: Ptilocercus lowi"
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