tench

species of fish
Taxon taxon Q76280
tench
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Summary

tench is a taxon[1]. tench ranks in the top 0.73% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,816 views/month, #1,430 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Fisch des Jahres (Deutschland)[3], Fisch des Jahres (Österreich)[4]
  • Taxon rank: species[5]
  • IUCN conservation status: Least Concern[6]
  • Parent taxon: Tinca[7]
  • Taxon name: Tinca tinca[8]
  • Commons category: Tinca tinca[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Tinca tinca[10]
  • Commons gallery: Tinca tinca[11]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[12], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[15]
  • This taxon is source of: tench[16]
  • Short name: T. tinca[17]
  • Taxon common name: Tench[18], lín obecný[19], zeelt[20], tanche[21], Schleie[22], suutari[23], suter[24], tenca[25]
  • Exact match: http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/01440764-n[26], http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn31/101443509-n[27]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[28]
  • Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic: vulnerable[29]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology[30]

Body

Identifiers

tench's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 114177[31]. tench's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 27717[32]. tench's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46581781[33]. tench's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2362524[34]. tench's ITIS TSN is recorded as 163348[35].

Why It Matters

tench has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] tench is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

FAQs

What awards did tench receive?

Honors received include Fisch des Jahres (Deutschland)[3] and Fisch des Jahres (Österreich)[4].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . archiv.dafv.de. Retrieved . archiv.dafv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [32] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [35] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [33] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [34] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . medieval-plants.org. medieval-plants.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . Portál informačního systému ochrany přírody. Retrieved . portal.nature.cz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . Belgian Species List. Retrieved . species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . Belgian Species List. Retrieved . species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . Belgian Species List. Retrieved . species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . laji.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . sabencia.net. sabencia.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [29] ↑ . Portál informačního systému ochrany přírody. Retrieved . portal.nature.cz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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