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Tetrahymena

genus of ciliate protozoa
Taxon taxon Q1198419
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Tetrahymena

Summary

Tetrahymena is a taxon[1]. Tetrahymena ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (62 views/month, #1,585 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tetrahymena received the Protist of the Year[3].
  • Tetrahymena's image is recorded as Tetrahymena thermophila.png[4].
  • Tetrahymena's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Tetrahymena's instance of is recorded as model organism[6].
  • Tetrahymena's taxon rank is recorded as genus[7].
  • Tetrahymena's parent taxon is recorded as Tetrahymenidae[8].
  • Tetrahymena's taxon name is recorded as Tetrahymena[9].
  • Tetrahymena's Commons category is recorded as Tetrahymena[10].
  • Tetrahymena's taxonomic type is recorded as Tetrahymena geleii[11].
  • Tetrahymena's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D013768[12].
  • Tetrahymena's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0hmb5[13].
  • Tetrahymena's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.043.185.650.375.750.850[14].
  • Tetrahymena's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 5890[15].
  • Tetrahymena's ITIS TSN is recorded as 46386[16].
  • Tetrahymena's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 61455[17].
  • Tetrahymena's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3204866[18].
  • Tetrahymena's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 416056[19].
  • Tetrahymena's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/Tetrahymena[20].
  • Tetrahymena's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': 'テトラヒメナ属'}[21].
  • Tetrahymena's New Zealand Organisms Register ID is recorded as 9b582f4e-e861-4507-86e4-13bf3662869e[22].
  • Tetrahymena's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0039679[23].
  • Tetrahymena's EPPO Code is recorded as 1TETHG[24].
  • Tetrahymena's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 335397[25].
  • Tetrahymena's Quora topic ID is recorded as Tetrahymena-thermophila[26].
  • Tetrahymena's IRMNG ID is recorded as 1020273[27].

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Recognition

Tetrahymena received the Protist of the Year[3].

Why It Matters

Tetrahymena ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (62 views/month, #1,585 of 195,241).[2] Tetrahymena has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Tetrahymena is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

FAQs

What awards did Tetrahymena receive?

Honors received include Protist of the Year[3].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . protozoologie.de. Retrieved . protozoologie.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . The World Ciliate Catalog. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . The significant cytostomal pattern of the "Glaucoma-Colpidium group," and a proposed new genus and species, Tetrahymena geleii. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Q106477729. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . New Zealand Organisms Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . WikiUMLS: Aligning UMLS to Wikipedia via Cross-lingual Neural Ranking. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved . 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.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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