Long-beaked echidna
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{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Long-beaked echidnas
| image = Long-beakedEchidna.jpg
| 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 (extinct)
Zaglossus robustus (extinct)
| 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 echidna, a spiny monotreme that lives in New Guinea. There are three living species, and two extinct species.
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Species
Zaglossus attenboroughi
- Habitat: regions of New Guinea at higher elevation than highland forests
- Era: the present
- Conservation status: Endangered
Remarks: see Sir David's Long-beaked Echidna
Zaglossus bartoni
- Habitat:on the central cordillera between the Paniai Lakes and the Nanneau Range, as well as the Huon Peninsula
- Era: the present
- Conservation status: Endangered
Remarks: see Eastern Long-beaked Echidna
Zaglossus bruijni
- Habitat: highland forests of New Guinea
- Era: the present
- Conservation status: Endangered
Remarks: see Western Long-beaked Echidna
Zaglossus hacketti
- Habitat: Western Australia
- Era: Upper Pleistocene
- Conservation status: 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.
Zaglossus robustus
- Habitat: Tasmania
- Era: Pleistocene
- Conservation status: Fossil
Remarks: This species is known from a fossil skull about 65 cm long.
Reference
- 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
- Template:MSW3 Groves