Cygnus

genus of birds
Taxon taxon Q29564928
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Cygnus

Summary

Cygnus is a taxon[1]. Cygnus ranks in the top 0.11% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,179 views/month, #216 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cygnus's image is recorded as Cygnus olor 2 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg[3].
  • Cygnus's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Cygnus's taxon rank is recorded as genus[5].
  • Cygnus's parent taxon is recorded as Anserinae[6].
  • Cygnus's parent taxon is recorded as Cygnini[7].
  • Cygnus's taxon name is recorded as Cygnus[8].
  • Cygnus's GND ID is recorded as 4180307-3[9].
  • Cygnus's Commons category is recorded as Cygnus[10].
  • Cygnus's taxonomic type is recorded as Whooper Swan[11].
  • Cygnus's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q1571 (mar)-Vj18081991-हंस.wav[12].
  • Cygnus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dftk[13].
  • Cygnus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8867[14].
  • Cygnus's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph115089[15].
  • Cygnus's ITIS TSN is recorded as 174984[16].
  • Cygnus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 45510542[17].
  • Cygnus's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 83418[18].
  • Cygnus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2498334[19].
  • Cygnus's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 159087[20].
  • Cygnus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cygnus (genus)[21].
  • Cygnus's Commons gallery is recorded as Cygnus (genus)[22].
  • Cygnus's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300250103[23].
  • Cygnus's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0090473[24].
  • Cygnus's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • Cygnus's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26].
  • Cygnus's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Cygnus include Annakacygna[28], a fossil taxon[29].

Why It Matters

Cygnus ranks in the top 0.11% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,179 views/month, #216 of 195,241).[2] Cygnus has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Cygnus is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for Cygnus include Annakacygna[28], a fossil taxon[29].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . IOC World Bird List Version 7.2. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . lingualibre.org. lingualibre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . 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. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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