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Pteropus niger

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Taxon taxon Q1765475
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Pteropus niger

Summary

Pteropus niger is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (64 views/month, #1,574 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pteropus niger's image is recorded as Pteropus niger three.jpeg[3].
  • Pteropus niger's image is recorded as 2012-10-27-Mauritius - Pteropus niger - Roussette - L2290C.JPG[4].
  • Pteropus niger's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Pteropus niger's taxon rank is recorded as species[6].
  • Pteropus niger's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Endangered status[7].
  • Pteropus niger's parent taxon is recorded as Pteropus[8].
  • Pteropus niger's taxon range map image is recorded as Mauritian Flying Fox area.png[9].
  • Pteropus niger's endemic to is recorded as Mascarene Islands[10].
  • Pteropus niger's taxon name is recorded as Pteropus niger[11].
  • Pteropus niger's Commons category is recorded as Pteropus niger[12].
  • Pteropus niger's IUCN taxon ID is recorded as 18743[13].
  • Pteropus niger's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gsvz8[14].
  • Pteropus niger's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 170225[15].
  • Pteropus niger's ITIS TSN is recorded as 631644[16].
  • Pteropus niger's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 327282[17].
  • Pteropus niger's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 233817[18].
  • Pteropus niger's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5218652[19].
  • Pteropus niger's MSW ID is recorded as 13800341[20].
  • Pteropus niger's original combination is recorded as Vespertilio vampyrus niger[21].
  • Pteropus niger's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Mauritian flying fox'}[22].
  • Pteropus niger's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'Zorro Volador Negro de Mauricio'}[23].
  • Pteropus niger's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Grande roussette des Mascareignes'}[24].
  • Pteropus niger's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Roussette noire'}[25].
  • Pteropus niger's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Greater Mascarene Flying Fox'}[26].
  • Pteropus niger's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Mauritan Flying Fox'}[27].

Why It Matters

Pteropus niger ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (64 views/month, #1,574 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 8 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus. Class I. Mammalia. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . ARKive. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . IUCN Red List. 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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