Alligator snapping turtle

Quality:

Alligator snapping turtle - heaviest freshwater turtle in the world. This taxon is the 1179^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 722^nd most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Alligator snapping turtle” in English Wikipedia has 82.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 80 references and 12 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 722^nd most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1179^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Alligator snapping turtle”, its content was written by 407 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1023 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Alligator snapping turtle is on the 722^nd place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 1179^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 188 times in English Wikipedia and cited 729 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4824 in February 2012
• Global: #7178 in May 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6985 in February 2024
• Global: #6638 in May 2025

There are 32 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Malay (ms) Macrochelys temminckii		91.0703
2	English (en) Alligator snapping turtle		82.8566
3	Dutch (nl) Alligatorschildpad		77.7283
4	Korean (ko) 악어거북		47.3923
5	Chinese (zh) 大鱷龜		46.9097
6	Portuguese (pt) Tartaruga-aligator		39.9957
7	German (de) Geierschildkröte		38.6986
8	Polish (pl) Skorpucha sępia		35.7938
9	Japanese (ja) ワニガメ		35.4579
10	French (fr) Macrochelys temminckii		35.3507

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alligator snapping turtle		5 384 188
2	Japanese (ja) ワニガメ		603 289
3	German (de) Geierschildkröte		427 263
4	French (fr) Macrochelys temminckii		402 213
5	Spanish (es) Macrochelys temminckii		382 534
6	Chinese (zh) 大鱷龜		284 502
7	Italian (it) Macrochelys temminckii		265 858
8	Russian (ru) Грифовая черепаха		235 900
9	Portuguese (pt) Tartaruga-aligator		159 274
10	Polish (pl) Skorpucha sępia		134 083

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alligator snapping turtle		29 755
2	German (de) Geierschildkröte		2 223
3	Spanish (es) Macrochelys temminckii		2 150
4	Chinese (zh) 大鱷龜		1 793
5	French (fr) Macrochelys temminckii		1 716
6	Japanese (ja) ワニガメ		1 576
7	Italian (it) Macrochelys temminckii		1 525
8	Russian (ru) Грифовая черепаха		1 363
9	Vietnamese (vi) Rùa cá sấu		774
10	Portuguese (pt) Tartaruga-aligator		650

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alligator snapping turtle		407
2	German (de) Geierschildkröte		98
3	Dutch (nl) Alligatorschildpad		64
4	French (fr) Macrochelys temminckii		49
5	Italian (it) Macrochelys temminckii		49
6	Russian (ru) Грифовая черепаха		35
7	Japanese (ja) ワニガメ		34
8	Spanish (es) Macrochelys temminckii		29
9	Hungarian (hu) Keselyűteknős		29
10	Polish (pl) Skorpucha sępia		25

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Polish (pl) Skorpucha sępia		1
2	Arabic (ar) سلحفاة القاطور النهاشة		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Алигаторова костенурка		0
4	Catalan (ca) Tortuga aligator		0
5	Czech (cs) Kajmanka supí		0
6	German (de) Geierschildkröte		0
7	English (en) Alligator snapping turtle		0
8	Spanish (es) Macrochelys temminckii		0
9	Basque (eu) Macrochelys temminckii		0
10	Persian (fa) لاک‌پشت گازگیر الیگاتور		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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