Long-beaked Echidna
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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 statusConservation status:] 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
- [Conservation statusConservation status:] Endangered
Zaglossus bruijni
- Habitat: highland forests of New Guinea
- Era: the present
- [Conservation statusConservation status:] Endangered
Zaglossus hacketti
- Habitat: Western Australia
- Era: Upper Pleistocene
- [Conservation statusConservation 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 statusConservation status:] Fossil
Remarks: 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
External links
Wikispecies has information related to:- ARKive - [images and movies of the long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus spp.)]
- Fossil Monotremes
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