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External identifiers for Mus musculus
Encyclopedia of Life	328450
ITIS	180366
NCBI	10090
Also found in: Wikispecies, Arctos

The TaxonIds template summarizes taxonomical identifiers for use in the "External links" section of pages describing taxa. We currently support the following fields:

Identifier	Database
wikispecies	The page name on WikiSpecies.
name	The taxon name. This will default to the page name if not provided, or the Wikispecies link if that is provided, and is automatically italicised. Higher taxa (families and above) should have this field set to prevent the taxon name appearing in italics. It should also be set where the Wikispecies link contains a disambiguation term (e.g. use name=''Iris orientalis'' if the Wikispecies page is "Iris orientalis (Tarachodidae)").
ncbi	The NCBI Taxonomy identifier.
eol	The Encyclopedia of Life identifier.
itis	The Integrated Taxonomic Information System identifier.
worms	The World Register of Marine Species identifier.
gbif	The Global Biodiversity Information Facility identifier.
paleodb	The Paleobiology Database identifier.
others	Links to any other databases. For example, you could set this to: [http://arctos.database.museum/name/Mus%20musculus Arctos].

For examples, see the examples page. For now, you can check What links here (or the external transclusion count tool) to see which pages use this template.

Which databases should we include?

Main article: List of biodiversity databases

• The database identifier must state the identifier on this page, indicating that the identifier itself is uniquely used to identify this entry.
• A database should encompass a certain number of species to be included here.

Design notes

• This template must support taxa at all levels: species names, family names, kingdoms, et al.
• At some point, we should encode the ids into a short string where it can be read automatically.

See also

• {{EOL}}
• {{Taxon}}
• {{automatic taxobox}}