Hirundinidae

family of birds
Taxon taxon Q39861
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Hirundinidae

Summary

Hirundinidae is a taxon[1]. Hirundinidae ranks in the top 0.27% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,520 views/month, #522 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hirundinidae's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Hirundinidae is classified at the rank of family[4].
  • Hirundinidae belongs to the parent taxon passerines[5].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Hirundinidae is Hirundinidae[6].
  • Hirundinidae's Commons category is recorded as Hirundinidae[7].
  • Hirundinidae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hirundinidae[8].
  • Hirundinidae's topic's main category is recorded as Q8973600[9].
  • Hirundinidae's Commons gallery is recorded as Hirundinidae[10].
  • Hirundinidae's code of nomenclature is recorded as International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[11].
  • Hirundinidae's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[12].
  • Hirundinidae's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Hirundinidae's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • Hirundinidae's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[15].
  • Hirundinidae's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16].
  • Hirundinidae's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17].
  • Hirundinidae's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[18].
  • Hirundinidae's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[19].
  • Hirundinidae is commonly known as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'svalefamilien'}[20].
  • Hirundinidae is commonly known as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'lastovke'}[21].
  • Hirundinidae's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22].
  • Hirundinidae's taxon range is recorded as Brazil[23].

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Classification

Hirundinidae's scientific name is Hirundinidae[6]. Hirundinidae is classified at the rank of family[4]. Hirundinidae is classified within passerines[5]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'svalefamilien'}[20] and {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'lastovke'}[21].

Identifiers

Hirundinidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 11853[24]. Hirundinidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 43148[25]. Hirundinidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7544[26]. Hirundinidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5248[27]. Hirundinidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 178423[28].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Hirundinidae include Tokyo Yakult Swallows[29], a baseball team[30], in Japan[31], founded in 1950[32], headquartered in Tokyo[33].

Why It Matters

Hirundinidae ranks in the top 0.27% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,520 views/month, #522 of 195,241).[2] Hirundinidae has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] Hirundinidae is known by 116 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Entities named for Hirundinidae include Tokyo Yakult Swallows[29], a baseball team[30], in Japan[31], founded in 1950[32], headquartered in Tokyo[33].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [25] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [28] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [26] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [27] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] ↑ . 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. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . 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. 4d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'ami', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'atj', 'avk', 'az', '
    Harper's tag → swallows
    Sitelink count → 139
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: swallows, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289960998|swallows (#289960998)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  2. 23d ago · ZI Jony · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14880 → 68574
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  3. 6w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 01596798-n
    Interlingual index id → i43676
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  4. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0373743-vlastovkoviti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0373743-vlastovkoviti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  5. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Code of nomenclature → International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
    Aliases → —
    Parent taxon → passerines
    Described by source → Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +5
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 20062, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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