Long-beaked echidna
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| Western Long-beaked Echidna (Zaglossus bruijni) |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Monotremata |
| Family: | Tachyglossidae |
| Genus: | Zaglossus Gill, 1877 |
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| Tachyglossus bruijni Peters and Doria, 1876 |
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Zaglossus attenboroughi |
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The long-beaked echidnas make up one of the two genera (genus Zaglossus) of echidnas, spiny monotremes that lives in New Guinea. There are three living species and two extinct species in this genus. Echidnas are one of the two types of mammals that lay eggs.
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[edit] Species
[edit] Zaglossus attenboroughi
Main article: Sir David's Long-beaked Echidna
- Habitat: regions of New Guinea at higher elevation than highland forests
- Era: the present
- Endangered
[edit] Zaglossus bartoni
Main article: Eastern Long-beaked Echidna
- Habitat: on the central cordillera between the Paniai Lakes and the Nanneau Range, as well as the Huon Peninsula
- Era: the present
- Endangered
[edit] Zaglossus bruijni
Main article: Western Long-beaked Echidna
- Habitat: highland forests of New Guinea
- Era: the present
- Endangered
[edit] †Zaglossus hacketti
Main article: Zaglossus hacketti
- Habitat: Western Australia
- Era: Upper Pleistocene
- Fossil
- 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
Main article: Zaglossus robustus
- Habitat: Tasmania
- Era: Pleistocene
- Fossil
- This species is known from a fossil skull about 65 cm long.
- It had many spikes along its back to protect it from its predators and used them as a weapon.
[edit] References
- ^ Groves, Colin P. (16 November 2005). "Order Monotremata (pp. 1-2)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 1-2. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=10300010.
- 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] See also
[edit] External links
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Wikispecies has information related to: Zaglossus |
- EDGE of Existence (Zaglossus spp.) – Saving the World's most Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species
- ARKive – images and movies of the long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus spp.)
- A summary, including references, on animalinfo.org
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