whale

Summary

whale is an organisms known by a particular common name^[1]. whale ranks in the top 6% of organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,936 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• whale's instance of is recorded as organisms known by a particular common name^[3].
• whale is a type of marine mammal^[4].
• whale is a type of Cetacea^[5].
• whale's Commons category is recorded as Whales^[6].
• whale's patron saint is recorded as Brendan the Navigator^[7].
• whale's Unicode character is recorded as 🐋^[8].
• whale's Unicode character is recorded as 🐳^[9].
• whale's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Whales^[10].
• whale's described by source is recorded as Infernal Dictionary, 6th ed.^[11].
• whale's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus^[12].
• whale's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng^[13].
• whale's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[14].
• whale's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[15].
• whale's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron^[16].
• whale's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[17].
• whale's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[18].
• whale's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[19].
• whale's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia^[20].
• whale's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[21].
• whale's this taxon is source of is recorded as whalebone^[22].
• whale's different from is recorded as Q57941455^[23].
• whale's produced sound is recorded as whale vocalization^[24].
• whale's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[25].
• whale's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change^[26].
• whale's taxon known by this common name is recorded as Physeteroidea^[27].

Body

Discovery and Description

Things named for whale include Godzilla^[28], a film character^[29]; Nahang-class submarine^[30], a submarine class^[31]; and November-class submarine^[32], a submarine class^[33].

Why It Matters

whale ranks in the top 6% of organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,936 views/month).^[2] whale has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] whale is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]

Entities named for whale include Godzilla^[28], a film character^[29]; Nahang-class submarine^[30], a submarine class^[31]; and November-class submarine^[32], a submarine class^[33].