shark

clade of predatory cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes)
Taxon taxon Q7372
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shark

Summary

shark is a taxon[1]. shark ranks in the top 0.039% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,490 views/month, #77 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • shark's image is recorded as Great white shark south africa.jpg[3].
  • shark's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • shark's taxon rank is recorded as superorder[5].
  • shark's parent taxon is recorded as Neoselachii[6].
  • shark's taxon name is recorded as Selachimorpha[7].
  • shark's GND ID is recorded as 4022957-9[8].
  • shark's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85121141[9].
  • shark's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11946997t[10].
  • shark's subclass of is recorded as fish[11].
  • shark's subclass of is recorded as fish as food[12].
  • shark's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00570080[13].
  • shark's Commons category is recorded as Selachimorpha[14].
  • shark's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D012754[15].
  • shark's Unicode character is recorded as 🦈[16].
  • shark's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 4383[17].
  • shark's start time is recorded as -425000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[18].
  • shark's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0by6g[19].
  • shark's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.050.150.900.493.370.853[20].
  • shark's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 119203[21].
  • shark's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph136714[22].
  • shark's ITIS TSN is recorded as 159787[23].
  • shark's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46559672[24].
  • shark's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 218949[25].
  • shark's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 368408[26].
  • shark's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sharks[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for shark include Typhoon-class submarine[28], a submarine class[29]; loan shark[30], an occupation[31]; Shark (UAV)[32], an aircraft[33]; skwal[34]; and HSwMS Hajen[35], an attack submarine[36].

Why It Matters

shark ranks in the top 0.039% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,490 views/month, #77 of 195,241).[2] shark has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] shark is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Entities named for shark include Typhoon-class submarine[28], a submarine class[29]; loan shark[30], an occupation[31]; Shark (UAV)[32], an aircraft[33]; skwal[34]; and HSwMS Hajen[35], an attack submarine[36].

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] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [35] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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