Long-beaked echidna

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Long-beaked echidnas
Western Long-beaked Echidna (Zaglossus bruijni)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Monotremata Family: Tachyglossidae Genus: Zaglossus Gill, 1877
Type species
Tachyglossus bruijni Peters and Doria, 1876
Species
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, a spiny monotreme that lives in New Guinea. There are three living species, and two extinct species.

Echidnas are one of the two types of mammals that lay eggs.

Contents 1 Species 1.1 Zaglossus attenboroughi 1.2 Zaglossus bartoni 1.3 Zaglossus bruijni 1.4 Zaglossus hacketti 1.5 Zaglossus robustus 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Species

[edit] Zaglossus attenboroughi

• Habitat: regions of New Guinea at higher elevation than highland forests
• Era: the present
• EN

Remarks: 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
• EN

Remarks: see Eastern Long-beaked Echidna

[edit] Zaglossus bruijni

• Habitat: highland forests of New Guinea
• Era: the present
• EN

Remarks: see Western Long-beaked Echidna

[edit] Zaglossus hacketti

• Habitat: Western Australia
• Era: Upper Pleistocene
• fossil
• 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
• fossil

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
• Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1-2. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 

[edit] External links

• 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.)
• Fossil Monotremes
• A pretty good summary, including references on animalinfo.org