Sus

genus of mammals in the family Suidae
Taxon taxon Q10798
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Summary

Sus is a taxon[1]. Sus ranks in the top 0.58% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,080 views/month, #1,139 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Suini[4]
  • Taxon name: Sus[5]
  • Subclass of: Animalia[6]
  • Commons category: Sus[7]
  • Has part(s): penis[8]
  • IPA transcription: sʌs[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sus[10], Category:Pigs[11]
  • Taxon common name: Pr3ko[12], গাহৰি[13], Gochu[14], Свиня[15], ཕག་པ།[16], Pomoc'h[17], porc[18], prase[19], Mochyn[20], Svin[21], Γουρούνι[22], Υς[23], Χοίρος[24], pig[25]
  • Different from: Sus[26]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27]

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Identifiers

Sus's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 42126[28]. Sus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9822[29]. Sus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 42318[30]. Sus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2441213[31]. Sus's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180721[32].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Sus include December[33], a calendar month[34] and Pig Beach[35], an island[36], in The Bahamas[37].

Why It Matters

Sus has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] Sus is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

Entities named for Sus include December[33], a calendar month[34] and Pig Beach[35], an island[36], in The Bahamas[37].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . lovehealth.co.uk. lovehealth.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [29] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [32] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [30] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [31] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [37] ↑ . 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. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i48198
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 02397896-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  2. 14w ago · TadejM · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon common name → {'lang': 'ak', 'text': 'Pr3ko'}, {'lang': 'as', 'text': 'গাহৰি'}, {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'Gochu'} +36
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Taxon common name: svinja"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Sus, Category:Pigs
    Taxon rank → genus
    Instance of → taxon
    Subclass of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007546543905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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