Shell (zoology)

Quality:

Seashell - hard, protective outer layer created by an animal. Article “Shell (zoology)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 38.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Shell (zoology)”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1251 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 70 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7480 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #606 in February 2012
• Global: #3884 in February 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #836 in September 2009
• Global: #26941 in August 2013

There are 33 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	Ukrainian (uk) Черепашка		53.9194
2	English (en) Seashell		50.9422
3	Spanish (es) Concha		50.6743
4	Russian (ru) Раковина		41.5681
5	Japanese (ja) 貝殻		38.6537
6	Simple English (simple) Shell (zoology)		38.465
7	Italian (it) Conchiglia		38.0147
8	Polish (pl) Muszla		35.9622
9	Chinese (zh) 貝殼		31.1917
10	Thai (th) เปลือกหอย		30.8719

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Seashell		3 717 042
2	Spanish (es) Concha		1 684 738
3	Italian (it) Conchiglia		589 939
4	Japanese (ja) 貝殻		515 371
5	Portuguese (pt) Concha		489 367
6	Persian (fa) صدف		437 318
7	Polish (pl) Muszla		388 123
8	Russian (ru) Раковина		245 388
9	Chinese (zh) 貝殼		224 791
10	Dutch (nl) Schelp		203 379

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) Seashell		10 445
2	Spanish (es) Concha		2 493
3	Italian (it) Conchiglia		1 438
4	Japanese (ja) 貝殻		1 026
5	Persian (fa) صدف		1 010
6	Chinese (zh) 貝殼		901
7	Portuguese (pt) Concha		774
8	Simple English (simple) Shell (zoology)		760
9	Russian (ru) Раковина		621
10	Arabic (ar) صدفة بحرية		565

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Seashell		274
2	Spanish (es) Concha		142
3	Italian (it) Conchiglia		106
4	Dutch (nl) Schelp		88
5	German (de) Muschelschale		58
6	Persian (fa) صدف		58
7	Japanese (ja) 貝殻		50
8	Russian (ru) Раковина		44
9	Polish (pl) Muszla		39
10	Danish (da) Konkylie		38

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	Ukrainian (uk) Черепашка		1
2	Arabic (ar) صدفة بحرية		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Balıqqulağı (əhəng daşı)		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Раковина		0
5	Czech (cs) Schránka		0
6	Danish (da) Konkylie		0
7	German (de) Muschelschale		0
8	Greek (el) Κοχύλι		0
9	English (en) Seashell		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Konko		0

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

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