Long-beaked echidna

Long-beaked echidna

Taxobox
name = Long-beaked echidnasMSW3 Groves|pages=1-2]


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Western Long-beaked Echidna
("Zaglossus bruijni")
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Monotremata
familia = Tachyglossidae
genus = "Zaglossus"
genus_authority = Gill, 1877
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Zaglossus attenboroughi" "Zaglossus bartoni" "Zaglossus bruijni" †"Zaglossus hacketti" †"Zaglossus robustus"
type_species = "Tachyglossus bruijni"
type_species_authority = Peters and Doria, 1876

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.

pecies

"Zaglossus attenboroughi"

*Habitat: regions of New Guinea at higher elevation than highland forests
*Era: the present
*Endangered

"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

"Zaglossus bruijni"

*Habitat: highland forests of New Guinea
*Era: the present
*Endangered

†"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.

†"Zaglossus robustus"

*Habitat: Tasmania
*Era: Pleistocene
*Fossil
*This species is known from a fossil skull about 65 cm long.

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

ee also

*Fossil Monotremes

External links

*EDGE of Existence [http://www.edgeofexistence.org/species/species_info.asp?id=2 "(Zaglossus spp.)"] - Saving the World's most Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species
*ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Zaglossus_spp/ images and movies of the long-beaked echidna "(Zaglossus spp.)"]
* [http://www.animalinfo.org/species/zaglbrui.htm A summary, including references on animalinfo.org]


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