Sirenia

order of mammals
Taxon taxon Q25431
Sirenia
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Sirenia

Summary

Sirenia is a taxon[1]. Sirenia ranks in the top 0.25% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,389 views/month, #497 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sirenia's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Sirenia is classified at the rank of order[4].
  • siren is named after Sirenia[5].
  • Sirenia is classified within Placentalia[6].
  • Sirenia is classified within mammal[7].
  • Sirenia is classified within Tethytheria[8].
  • Sirenia's scientific name is Sirenia[9].
  • Sirenia's Commons category is recorded as Sirenia[10].
  • Sirenia began on -55800000-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Sirenia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sirenians[12].
  • Sirenia's code of nomenclature is recorded as International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[13].
  • Sirenia's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • Sirenia's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • Sirenia is commonly known as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'sjøkyr'}[16].
  • Sirenia is commonly known as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'morske krave'}[17].
  • Sirenia's MCN code is recorded as 0106.12.00[18].
  • Sirenia's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19].

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Classification

Sirenia's scientific name is Sirenia[9]. Sirenia is classified at the rank of order[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Placentalia[6], mammal[7], and Tethytheria[8]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'sjøkyr'}[16] and {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'morske krave'}[17].

Discovery and Description

siren is named after Sirenia[5].

Identifiers

Sirenia's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 46306[20]. Sirenia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9774[21]. Sirenia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8708[22]. Sirenia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 802[23]. Sirenia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180676[24].

Why It Matters

Sirenia ranks in the top 0.25% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,389 views/month, #497 of 195,241).[2] Sirenia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Sirenia is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [21] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [24] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [22] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [23] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] . wikidata.org.
  21. [20] . wikidata.org.
  22. [19] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12d 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 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 8386, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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