Sirenia

order of mammals
Taxon taxon Q25431
Sirenia
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Summary

Sirenia is a taxon[1]. Sirenia ranks in the top 0.25% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,518 views/month, #497 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: order[3]
  • Named after: siren[4]
  • Parent taxon: Placentalia[5], mammal[6], Tethytheria[7]
  • Taxon name: Sirenia[8]
  • Commons category: Sirenia[9]
  • Start time: -55800000-00-00T00:00:00Z[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sirenians[11]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[12]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14]
  • Taxon common name: sjøkyr[15], morske krave[16]
  • MCN code: 0106.12.00[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]

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Identifiers

Sirenia's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 46306[19]. Sirenia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9774[20]. Sirenia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8708[21]. Sirenia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 802[22]. Sirenia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180676[23].

Why It Matters

Sirenia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Sirenia is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [20] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [23] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [21] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [22] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · C960657 · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lex id → søkøer
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Lex id: søkøer_-_arter"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Temporal range start → Q508691
    Instance of → —
    Instance of → taxon
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 8386, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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