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Ring-tailed mongoose

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Taxon taxon Q518580
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Ring-tailed mongoose

Summary

Ring-tailed mongoose is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (118 views/month, #1,550 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ring-tailed mongoose's image is recorded as Ring-tailed vontsira (Galidia elegans) 2.jpg[3].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's taxon rank is recorded as species[5].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Least Concern[6].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's parent taxon is recorded as Galidia[7].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's taxon range map image is recorded as Galidia elegans range map.svg[8].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's endemic to is recorded as Madagascar[9].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's taxon name is recorded as Galidia elegans[10].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's Commons category is recorded as Galidia elegans[11].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's IUCN taxon ID is recorded as 39426[12].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0djdk3[13].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 61400[14].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's ITIS TSN is recorded as 621875[15].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 999164[16].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 232126[17].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2433507[18].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Galidia elegans[19].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's Commons gallery is recorded as Galidia elegans[20].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's MSW ID is recorded as 14000455[21].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'G. elegans'}[22].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Malagasy ring-tailed mongoose'}[23].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Malagasy Ring-tailed Mongoose'}[24].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Ring-tailed Mongoose'}[25].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Ring-tailed Vontsira'}[26].
  • Ring-tailed mongoose's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Ringelmungo'}[27].

Why It Matters

Ring-tailed mongoose ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (118 views/month, #1,550 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Madagascar

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . ARKive. 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] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. 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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