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    Echidna (redirect from Tachyglossidae)
    quill-covered monotremes (egg-laying mammals) belonging to the family Tachyglossidae /tækiˈɡlɒsɪdiː/, living in Australia and New Guinea. The four extant...
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    contain the platypus and its extinct relatives. The other family is the Tachyglossidae, or echidnas. Within the Ornithorhynchidae are the genera Monotrematum...
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    short-beaked echidna is the only member of its genus, sharing the family Tachyglossidae with the extant species of the genus Zaglossus that occur in New Guinea...
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    Ornithorhynchidae: platypus Genus Ornithorhynchus Platypus, O. anatinus Family Tachyglossidae: echidnas Genus Tachyglossus Short-beaked echidna, T. aculeatus T. a...
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    Groves C.P. (1998). "A revision of the genus Zaglossus (Monotremata, Tachyglossidae), with description of new species and subspecies". Mammalia. 62 (3):...
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  • Mammals are divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: egg laying mammals (the monotremes), and live birth mammals. The second subclass...
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    Groves, C.P. (1998). "A revision of the genus Zaglossus (Monotremata, Tachyglossidae), with description of new species and subspecies" (PDF). Mammalia. 62...
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    Monotremata species by family Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia (unranked) Australosphenida Tachyglossidae (Echidnas) Ornithorhynchidae Category...
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    C. P. (Jan 1998). "A revision of the genus Zaglossus (Monotremata, Tachyglossidae), with description of new species and subspecies". Mammalia. 6 (3):...
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    P. (January 1998). "A revision of the genus Zaglossus (Monotremata, Tachyglossidae), with description of new species and subspecies" (PDF). Mammalia. 62...
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  • This is a list of mammals of South Australia. It includes all mammals recorded in South Australia since European settlement, including some known only...
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    is presented in the article of each order. Order Monotremata Family Tachyglossidae (echidnas) Family Ornithorhynchidae (platypuses) Infraclass Metatheria...
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    Ornithorhychus (Platypus) Tachyglossidae (Echidna)...
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  • Ornithorhynchus (platypus) Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) Family Tachyglossidae (echidnas) Genus Tachyglossus (short-beaked echidna) Short-beaked echidna...
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    This is a list of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about...
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    "Observations on the skulls of fossil and extant echidnas (Monotremata:Tachyglossidae)". Australian Mammalogy. 14: 87–101. Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery...
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    Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Monotremata Family: Tachyglossidae Genus: Tachyglossus Species: T. aculeatus Subspecies: T. a. setosus...
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    Groves, C.P. (1998). "A revision of the genus Zaglossus (Monotremata, Tachyglossidae), with description of new species and subspecies". Mammalia. 62 (3):...
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    Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Monotremata Family: Tachyglossidae Genus: †Murrayglossus Flannery et al., 2022 Species: †M. hacketti Binomial...
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    Stirtodon? Teinolophos Ornithorhynchidae †Monotrematum? †Obdurodon Ornithorhynchus Tachyglossidae †Megalibgwilia †Murrayglossus Tachyglossus Zaglossus...
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    Horse (Equus caballus) 64 162 Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) 64 163 Echidna (Tachyglossidae) 63/64 63 (X1Y1X2Y2X3Y3X4Y4X5, male) and 64 (X1X1X2X2X3X3X4X4X5X5, female)...
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    "Food preference of the echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus (Monotremata: Tachyglossidae), in the wheatbelt of Western Australia". Australian Mammalogy. 11 (2):...
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    Stirtodon? Teinolophos Ornithorhynchidae †Monotrematum? †Obdurodon Ornithorhynchus Tachyglossidae †Megalibgwilia †Murrayglossus Tachyglossus Zaglossus...
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    Stirtodon? Teinolophos Ornithorhynchidae †Monotrematum? †Obdurodon Ornithorhynchus Tachyglossidae †Megalibgwilia †Murrayglossus Tachyglossus Zaglossus...
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    Stirtodon? Teinolophos Ornithorhynchidae †Monotrematum? †Obdurodon Ornithorhynchus Tachyglossidae †Megalibgwilia †Murrayglossus Tachyglossus Zaglossus...
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  • As of 19 August 2018, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has identified 3,005 critically endangered species, subspecies, stocks and subpopulations...
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    "Food preference of the echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus (Monotremata: Tachyglossidae), in the wheatbelt of Western Australia". Australian Mammalogy (11 ed...
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    (1 January 1998). "A revision of the genus Zaglossus (Monotremata, Tachyglossidae), with description of new species and subspecies". Mammalia. 62 (3):...
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    Stirtodon? Teinolophos Ornithorhynchidae †Monotrematum? †Obdurodon Ornithorhynchus Tachyglossidae †Megalibgwilia †Murrayglossus Tachyglossus Zaglossus...
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  • live young. Momotremata comprises the platypus and echidnas. Family: Tachyglossidae Genus: Tachyglossus Short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus LC...
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