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Right whale

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Taxon taxon Q1527843
Right whale
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Right whale

Summary

Right whale is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.56% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (621 views/month, #1,098 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Right whale's image is recorded as Eubalaena glacialis with calf.jpg[3].
  • Right whale's image is recorded as Southern right whale.jpg[4].
  • Right whale's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Right whale's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Right whale's parent taxon is recorded as Balaenidae[7].
  • Right whale's taxon range map image is recorded as Eubalaena range map.png[8].
  • Right whale's taxon name is recorded as Eubalaena[9].
  • Right whale's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2001000011[10].
  • Right whale's Commons category is recorded as Eubalaena[11].
  • Right whale's taxonomic type is recorded as Balaena australis[12].
  • Right whale's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01rzs4[13].
  • Right whale's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 27605[14].
  • Right whale's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph1235218[15].
  • Right whale's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180536[16].
  • Right whale's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46559420[17].
  • Right whale's BioLib taxon ID is recorded as 20746[18].
  • Right whale's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 36715[19].
  • Right whale's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2440331[20].
  • Right whale's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 159022[21].
  • Right whale's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Eubalaena[22].
  • Right whale's MSW ID is recorded as 14300006[23].
  • Right whale's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/Eubalaena[24].
  • Right whale's ZooBank ID for name or act is recorded as 817EA196-920E-4897-B28B-C8128C1DCFE1[25].
  • Right whale's Dyntaxa ID is recorded as 6037427[26].
  • Right whale's New Zealand Organisms Register ID is recorded as a0d89cd2-0e3c-4e2e-b030-57499e8ba9a0[27].

Why It Matters

Right whale ranks in the top 0.56% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (621 views/month, #1,098 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 6 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] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Library of Congress Control Number. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Dyntaxa. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . New Zealand Organisms Register. 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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