wildebeest

antelope of the genus Connochaetes
Taxon taxon Q7609
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wildebeest

Summary

wildebeest is a taxon[1]. wildebeest ranks in the top 0.27% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,478 views/month, #535 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • wildebeest's image is recorded as Blue Wildebeest, Ngorongoro.jpg[3].
  • wildebeest's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • wildebeest's taxon rank is recorded as genus[5].
  • wildebeest's parent taxon is recorded as Alcelaphinae[6].
  • wildebeest's taxon range map image is recorded as Connochaetes map.png[7].
  • wildebeest's endemic to is recorded as Africa[8].
  • wildebeest's taxon name is recorded as Connochaetes[9].
  • wildebeest's Commons category is recorded as Connochaetes[10].
  • wildebeest's start time is recorded as -2500000-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • wildebeest's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/086cy[12].
  • wildebeest's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9926[13].
  • wildebeest's ITIS TSN is recorded as 624963[14].
  • wildebeest's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 38830[15].
  • wildebeest's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 42761[16].
  • wildebeest's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2441104[17].
  • wildebeest's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Connochaetes[18].
  • wildebeest's MSW ID is recorded as 14200508[19].
  • wildebeest's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 7294[20].
  • wildebeest's Iconclass notation is recorded as 25F24(GNU)[21].
  • wildebeest's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[22].
  • wildebeest's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[23].
  • wildebeest's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • wildebeest's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • wildebeest's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/gnu[26].
  • wildebeest's BBC Things ID is recorded as 7af3a602-e8de-4738-a934-229e1bbb9492[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for wildebeest include GNU[28], an operating system[29], founded in 1983[30].

Why It Matters

wildebeest ranks in the top 0.27% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,478 views/month, #535 of 195,241).[2] wildebeest has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] wildebeest is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for wildebeest include GNU[28], an operating system[29], founded in 1983[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . 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] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . 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. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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