Spotted handfish

endangered walking Fish
Taxon taxon Q309745
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Spotted handfish

Summary

Spotted handfish is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (38 views/month, #1,601 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Spotted handfish's image is recorded as Normal ian-symbol-brachionichthys-hirsutus.png[3].
  • Spotted handfish's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Spotted handfish's taxon rank is recorded as species[5].
  • Spotted handfish's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Critically Endangered[6].
  • Spotted handfish's parent taxon is recorded as Brachionichthys[7].
  • Spotted handfish's endemic to is recorded as Australia[8].
  • Spotted handfish's taxon name is recorded as Brachionichthys hirsutus[9].
  • Spotted handfish's Commons category is recorded as Brachionichthys hirsutus[10].
  • Spotted handfish's IUCN taxon ID is recorded as 2958[11].
  • Spotted handfish's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0c0qf4[12].
  • Spotted handfish's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 412623[13].
  • Spotted handfish's ITIS TSN is recorded as 623152[14].
  • Spotted handfish's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46566343[15].
  • Spotted handfish's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 352304[16].
  • Spotted handfish's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2414424[17].
  • Spotted handfish's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 279954[18].
  • Spotted handfish's FishBase species ID is recorded as 24716[19].
  • Spotted handfish's ZooBank ID for name or act is recorded as F261DF15-33BF-45BE-A020-5ACDF823FAC9[20].
  • Spotted handfish's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'B. hirsutus'}[21].
  • Spotted handfish's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Spotted handfish'}[22].
  • Spotted handfish's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Spotted Handfish'}[23].
  • Spotted handfish's Plazi ID is recorded as E1E35B7C-1ADC-C8C5-3966-10F67A038C92[24].
  • Spotted handfish's Species Profile and Threats Database ID is recorded as 64418[25].
  • Spotted handfish's ARKive ID is recorded as brachionichthys-hirsutus[26].
  • Spotted handfish's ARKive ID is recorded as spotted-handfish/brachionichthys-hirsutus[27].

Why It Matters

Spotted handfish ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (38 views/month, #1,601 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

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] . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . FishBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . ZooBank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . ARKive. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Plazi. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . 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.

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