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short-tailed opossum

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Taxon taxon Q1425981
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short-tailed opossum

Summary

short-tailed opossum is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month, #1,618 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • short-tailed opossum's image is recorded as Monodelphis domestica.jpg[3].
  • short-tailed opossum's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • short-tailed opossum's taxon rank is recorded as genus[5].
  • short-tailed opossum's parent taxon is recorded as Didelphinae[6].
  • short-tailed opossum's taxon name is recorded as Monodelphis[7].
  • short-tailed opossum's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2007000579[8].
  • short-tailed opossum's Commons category is recorded as Monodelphis[9].
  • short-tailed opossum's taxonomic type is recorded as Monodelphis brachyura[10].
  • short-tailed opossum's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D048309[11].
  • short-tailed opossum's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b5z41[12].
  • short-tailed opossum's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.050.150.900.649.573.575.500[13].
  • short-tailed opossum's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 13615[14].
  • short-tailed opossum's ITIS TSN is recorded as 552396[15].
  • short-tailed opossum's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 38827[16].
  • short-tailed opossum's BioLib taxon ID is recorded as 33268[17].
  • short-tailed opossum's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 39976[18].
  • short-tailed opossum's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 7967492[19].
  • short-tailed opossum's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Monodelphis[20].
  • short-tailed opossum's MSW ID is recorded as 10400133[21].
  • short-tailed opossum's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/short-tailed-opossum[22].
  • short-tailed opossum's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'short-tailed opossums'}[23].
  • short-tailed opossum's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'kratkorepi oposum'}[24].
  • short-tailed opossum's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 42562[25].
  • short-tailed opossum's BOLD Systems taxon ID is recorded as 27371[26].
  • short-tailed opossum's ADW taxon ID is recorded as Monodelphis[27].

Why It Matters

short-tailed opossum ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month, #1,618 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Barcode of Life Data Systems. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . 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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