rhinoceros
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Summary
rhinoceros is a taxon[1]. rhinoceros ranks in the top 0.08% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (19,480 views/month, #157 of 195,241).[2]
Key Facts
- Taxon rank: family[3]
- Parent taxon: odd-toed ungulate[4], Rhinocerotoidea[5]
- Taxon name: Rhinocerotidae[6]
- Commons category: Rhinocerotidae[7]
- Taxonomic type: Rhinoceros[8]
- Unicode character: 🦏[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Rhinoceroses[10]
- Commons gallery: Rhinocerotidae[11]
- Depicted by: The Rhinoceros[12], Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice[13]
- Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18], The New Student's Reference Work[19]
- This taxon is source of: horn[20], rhinoceros horn[21], mammal horn[22]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23]
- CITES Appendix: Appendix I of CITES[24]
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Identifiers
rhinoceros's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 43341[25]. rhinoceros's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9803[26]. rhinoceros's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1669[27]. rhinoceros's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 9415[28]. rhinoceros's ITIS TSN is recorded as 624916[29].
Discovery and Description
Things named for rhinoceros include Rhinoceros[30], a literary work[31], founded in 1959[32], written by Eugène Ionesco[33]; Nashorn[34], a combat vehicle model[35]; and Ivan Rogov-class landing ship[36], a ship class[37].
Why It Matters
rhinoceros has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] rhinoceros is known by 109 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]
Entities named for rhinoceros include Rhinoceros[30], a literary work[31], founded in 1959[32], written by Eugène Ionesco[33]; Nashorn[34], a combat vehicle model[35]; and Ivan Rogov-class landing ship[36], a ship class[37].