Sargassum

Summary

Sargassum is a taxon^[1]. Sargassum ranks in the top 0.31% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,365 views/month, #604 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• Sargassum's image is recorded as Sargassum muticum Yendo Fensholt 1955 Lamiot WimmereuxHautsDeFrance Estran Juillet 2016a4.jpg^[3].
• Sargassum's instance of is recorded as taxon^[4].
• Sargassum's taxon rank is recorded as genus^[5].
• Sargassum's parent taxon is recorded as Sargassaceae^[6].
• Sargassum's taxon name is recorded as Sargassum^[7].
• Sargassum's Commons category is recorded as Sargassum^[8].
• Sargassum's taxonomic type is recorded as Sargassum bacciferum^[9].
• Sargassum's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D044647^[10].
• Sargassum's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04glm9^[11].
• Sargassum's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.750.600.725^[12].
• Sargassum's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 3015^[13].
• Sargassum's ITIS TSN is recorded as 11389^[14].
• Sargassum's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 9680^[15].
• Sargassum's BioLib taxon ID is recorded as 127896^[16].
• Sargassum's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3196548^[17].
• Sargassum's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 144132^[18].
• Sargassum's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sargassum^[19].
• Sargassum's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana^[20].
• Sargassum's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[21].
• Sargassum's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work^[22].
• Sargassum's AlgaeBase URL is recorded as https://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=77^[23].
• Sargassum's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/Sargassum^[24].
• Sargassum's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/sargassum-weed^[25].
• Sargassum's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'pt', 'text': 'sargaço'}^[26].
• Sargassum's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': 'サルガッソ'}^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Sargassum include Sargasso Sea^[28], a sea^[29].

Why It Matters

Sargassum ranks in the top 0.31% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,365 views/month, #604 of 195,241).^[2] Sargassum has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] Sargassum is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]

Entities named for Sargassum include Sargasso Sea^[28], a sea^[29].