tuatara

genus of reptiles
Taxon taxon Q163283
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tuatara

Summary

tuatara is a taxon[1]. tuatara ranks in the top 0.24% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,446 views/month, #471 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • tuatara's image is recorded as Tuatara adult.jpg[3].
  • tuatara's image is recorded as Sphenodon punctatus in Waikanae, New Zealand.jpg[4].
  • tuatara's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • tuatara's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • tuatara's parent taxon is recorded as Sphenodontidae[7].
  • tuatara's parent taxon is recorded as Sphenodontinae[8].
  • tuatara's taxon range map image is recorded as North Island Map tuatara.PNG[9].
  • tuatara's endemic to is recorded as New Zealand[10].
  • tuatara's taxon name is recorded as Sphenodon[11].
  • tuatara's Commons category is recorded as Sphenodon punctatus[12].
  • tuatara's start time is recorded as -240000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • tuatara's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07kvl[14].
  • tuatara's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8507[15].
  • tuatara's ITIS TSN is recorded as 202131[16].
  • tuatara's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 35461[17].
  • tuatara's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 92231[18].
  • tuatara's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2473267[19].
  • tuatara's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sphenodon[20].
  • tuatara's described by source is recorded as Critter of the Week[21].
  • tuatara's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22].
  • tuatara's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[23].
  • tuatara's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/tuatara[24].
  • tuatara's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Tuatara'}[25].
  • tuatara's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'tuátara'}[26].
  • tuatara's New Zealand Organisms Register ID is recorded as bca43239-d21d-41d0-81cf-68803a0cc4ac[27].

Why It Matters

tuatara ranks in the top 0.24% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,446 views/month, #471 of 195,241).[2] tuatara has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] tuatara is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . sabencia.net. sabencia.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . New Zealand Organisms Register. 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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