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thorny devil

species of reptile
Taxon taxon Q320665
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thorny devil

Summary

thorny devil is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.63% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (512 views/month, #1,230 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • thorny devil's image is recorded as Thornydevil02.jpg[3].
  • thorny devil's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • thorny devil's taxon rank is recorded as species[5].
  • Moloch is named after thorny devil[6].
  • thorny devil's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Least Concern[7].
  • thorny devil's parent taxon is recorded as Moloch[8].
  • thorny devil's taxon range map image is recorded as Thorny Devil Area.png[9].
  • thorny devil's endemic to is recorded as Australia[10].
  • thorny devil's taxon name is recorded as Moloch horridus[11].
  • thorny devil's Commons category is recorded as Moloch horridus[12].
  • thorny devil's has part is recorded as dew collector[13].
  • thorny devil's IUCN taxon ID is recorded as 83492011[14].
  • thorny devil's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/045643[15].
  • thorny devil's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 52198[16].
  • thorny devil's ITIS TSN is recorded as 1055593[17].
  • thorny devil's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2466435[18].
  • thorny devil's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Moloch horridus[19].
  • thorny devil's Commons gallery is recorded as Moloch horridus[20].
  • thorny devil's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok[21].
  • thorny devil's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • thorny devil's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • thorny devil's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[24].
  • thorny devil's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/moloch-lizard-species[25].
  • thorny devil's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'M. horridus'}[26].
  • thorny devil's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Thorny devil'}[27].

Why It Matters

thorny devil ranks in the top 0.63% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (512 views/month, #1,230 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Australia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Reptile Database. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Reptile Database. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Reptile Database. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . 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] ↑ . ARKive. 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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