Long-beaked echidna
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![]() Western Long-beaked Echidna
(Zaglossus bruijni) |
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Tachyglossus bruijni Peters and Doria, 1876 |
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Zaglossus attenboroughi Zaglossus bartoni Zaglossus bruijni †Zaglossus hacketti †Zaglossus robustus |
The long-beaked echidnas make up one of the two genera (Genus Zaglossus) of echidna. Echidna is a spiny monotreme that lives in New Guinea. There are three living species, and two extinct ones.
Echidnas are one of the two types of mammals that lay eggs.
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[edit] Species
[edit] Zaglossus attenboroughi
- Habitat: regions of New Guinea at higher elevation than highland forests
- Era: the present
- Status: Endangered
Remarks: Species described from one sample only. May be endangered, or locally extinct. See Sir David's Long-beaked Echidna
[edit] Zaglossus bartoni
- Habitat:on the central cordillera between the Paniai Lakes and the Nanneau Range, as well as the Huon Peninsula
- Era: the present
- Status: Endangered
Remarks: see Eastern Long-beaked Echidna
[edit] Zaglossus bruijni
- Habitat: highland forests of New Guinea
- Era: the present
- Status: Endangered
Remarks: see Western Long-beaked Echidna
[edit] Zaglossus hacketti
- Habitat: Western Australia
- Era: Upper Pleistocene
Remarks: This species is known only from a few bones. At a metre long, it was huge for an echidna and for monotremes in general.
[edit] Zaglossus robustus
- Habitat: Tasmania
- Era: Pleistocene
Remarks: This species is known from a fossil skull about 65 cm long.
[edit] References
- Flannery, T.F. and Groves, C.P. 1998 A revision of the genus Zaglossus (Monotremata, Tachyglossidae), with description of new species and subspecies. Mammalia, 62(3): 367-396
[edit] External links
Look up Zaglossus in Wikispecies, a directory of species
- EDGE of Existence (Zaglossus spp.) - Saving the World's most Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species