Proboscidea

order of mammals
Taxon taxon Q26308
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Summary

Proboscidea is a taxon[1]. Proboscidea ranks in the top 0.48% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,631 views/month, #930 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: order[3]
  • Parent taxon: Tethytheria[4], Placentalia[5], mammal[6]
  • Taxon name: Proboscidea[7]
  • Commons category: Proboscidea[8]
  • Start time: -60000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Proboscideans[10]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[13]
  • Topic has template: Template:Proboscidea (Animalia)[14], Template:Proboscidea[15]
  • Taxon common name: snabeldyr[16], trobčarji[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]
  • Homonymous taxon: Proboscidea[19]

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Identifiers

Proboscidea's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 43691[20]. Proboscidea's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9779[21]. Proboscidea's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1643[22]. Proboscidea's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 799[23]. Proboscidea's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180674[24].

Why It Matters

Proboscidea has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Proboscidea is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [21] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [24] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [22] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [23] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Start time → -60000000-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Topic has template → Template:Proboscidea (Animalia), Template:Proboscidea
    Instance of → —
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 11104, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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