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 |
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
- Habitat: regions of New Guinea at higher elevation than highland forests
- Era: the present
- Endangered
[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
- Endangered
[edit] Zaglossus bruijni
- Habitat: highland forests of New Guinea
- Era: the present
- Endangered
[edit] †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
- Habitat: Tasmania
- Era: Pleistocene
- Fossil
- This species is known from a fossil skull about 65 cm long.
[edit] References
- ^ 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.
- 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
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[edit] External links
Wikispecies has information related to:
- 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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