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porpoise

small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae
Taxon taxon Q10867
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porpoise

Summary

porpoise is a taxon[1]. porpoise ranks in the top 0.27% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,045 views/month, #533 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • porpoise's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • porpoise is classified at the rank of family[4].
  • porpoise belongs to the parent taxon Delphinoidea[5].
  • porpoise's scientific name is Phocoenidae[6].
  • porpoise's Commons category is recorded as Phocoenidae[7].
  • The taxonomic type of porpoise is Phocoena[8].
  • porpoise began on -15970000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • porpoise's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Porpoises[10].
  • porpoise's code of nomenclature is recorded as International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[11].
  • porpoise's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • porpoise's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[13].
  • porpoise is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Porpoises'}[14].
  • porpoise is commonly known as {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'Pyöriäiset'}[15].
  • porpoise is commonly known as {'lang': 'th', 'text': 'พอร์พอยส์'}[16].
  • porpoise is commonly known as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'nisefamilien'}[17].
  • porpoise is commonly known as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'rjave pliskavke'}[18].
  • porpoise's different from is recorded as dolphin[19].
  • porpoise's permanent duplicated item is recorded as Q25681647[20].
  • porpoise's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, porpoise is Phocoenidae[6]. porpoise is classified at the rank of family[4]. porpoise is classified within Delphinoidea[5]. The taxonomic type of porpoise is Phocoena[8]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Porpoises'}[14], {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'Pyöriäiset'}[15], {'lang': 'th', 'text': 'พอร์พอยส์'}[16], {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'nisefamilien'}[17], and {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'rjave pliskavke'}[18].

Identifiers

porpoise's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 41437[22]. porpoise's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9740[23]. porpoise's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7653[24]. porpoise's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 9361[25]. porpoise's ITIS TSN is recorded as 552307[26].

Why It Matters

porpoise ranks in the top 0.27% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,045 views/month, #533 of 195,241).[2] porpoise has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] porpoise is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [23] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [26] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [24] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [25] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Delphinoidea
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Different from → dolphin
    Instance of → —
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 18431, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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