weasel

genus of mammals
Taxon taxon Q28521
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weasel

Summary

weasel is a taxon[1]. weasel ranks in the top 0.086% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,684 views/month, #167 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • weasel's video is recorded as Curious weasel visits Llanelli flood defence.webm[3].
  • weasel's image is recorded as Mustela nivalis -British Wildlife Centre-4.jpg[4].
  • weasel's image is recorded as WEASEL.JPG[5].
  • weasel's instance of is recorded as taxon[6].
  • weasel's taxon rank is recorded as genus[7].
  • weasel's parent taxon is recorded as Mustelinae[8].
  • weasel's taxon name is recorded as Mustela[9].
  • weasel's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85089117[10].
  • weasel's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00564313[11].
  • weasel's Commons category is recorded as Mustela[12].
  • weasel's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09cqt[13].
  • weasel's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9665[14].
  • weasel's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph538448[15].
  • weasel's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180552[16].
  • weasel's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 14116[17].
  • weasel's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 41139[18].
  • weasel's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2433922[19].
  • weasel's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 297167[20].
  • weasel's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mustela[21].
  • weasel's MSW ID is recorded as 14001325[22].
  • weasel's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300310569[23].
  • weasel's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[24].
  • weasel's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • weasel's ZooBank ID for name or act is recorded as 72669CD5-BCE4-49DA-8F73-655ABF946CF9[26].
  • weasel's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'podlasica'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for weasel include Mustelidae[28], a taxon[29]; Iceweasel[30], a rebranding[31]; and Horiany[32], a human settlement[33], in Ukraine[34].

Why It Matters

weasel ranks in the top 0.086% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,684 views/month, #167 of 195,241).[2] weasel has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] weasel is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for weasel include Mustelidae[28], a taxon[29]; Iceweasel[30], a rebranding[31]; and Horiany[32], a human settlement[33], in Ukraine[34].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . 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] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . ZooBank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] . 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. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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