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pilot whale

genus of dolphins in the order Cetacea
Taxon taxon Q459616
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pilot whale

Summary

pilot whale is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.36% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,659 views/month, #699 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • pilot whale's image is recorded as Short-finned Pilot Whale (8790153918).jpg[3].
  • pilot whale's image is recorded as Photo of the Week - Long-finned Pilot Whales (RI) (6892801246).jpg[4].
  • pilot whale's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • pilot whale's audio is recorded as Long finned Pilot Whales orig.ogg[6].
  • pilot whale's taxon rank is recorded as genus[7].
  • pilot whale's parent taxon is recorded as Globicephalinae[8].
  • pilot whale's taxon range map image is recorded as Pilot Whale range.png[9].
  • pilot whale's taxon name is recorded as Globicephala[10].
  • pilot whale's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85055297[11].
  • pilot whale's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 123972409[12].
  • pilot whale's part of is recorded as Blackfish[13].
  • pilot whale's Commons category is recorded as Globicephala[14].
  • pilot whale's taxonomic type is recorded as Delphinus globiceps[15].
  • pilot whale's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D050686[16].
  • pilot whale's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 69954[17].
  • pilot whale's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/020lmy[18].
  • pilot whale's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.050.150.900.649.313.875.267.920[19].
  • pilot whale's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9729[20].
  • pilot whale's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180464[21].
  • pilot whale's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 39486[22].
  • pilot whale's BioLib taxon ID is recorded as 20830[23].
  • pilot whale's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 36721[24].
  • pilot whale's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2440595[25].
  • pilot whale's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 137017[26].
  • pilot whale's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Globicephala[27].

Why It Matters

pilot whale ranks in the top 0.36% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,659 views/month, #699 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . BioLib. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . 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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