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Long-beaked echidnas
	Western Long-beaked Echidna; (Zaglossus bruijni)
Conservation status
	; Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia;
Phylum:	Chordata;
Class:	Mammalia;
Order:	Monotremata;
Family:	Tachyglossidae;
Genus:	Zaglossus; Gill, 1877
Type species
	Tachyglossus bruijni; Peters and Doria, 1876
Species
	Zaglossus attenboroughi; Zaglossus bartoni; Zaglossus bruijni; †Zaglossus hacketti; †Zaglossus robustus

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.

[edit] Species

[edit] Zaglossus attenboroughi

Main article: Sir David's Long-beaked Echidna

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

[edit] Zaglossus bartoni

Main article: Eastern Long-beaked Echidna

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

Main article: Western Long-beaked Echidna

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

[edit] †Zaglossus hacketti

Main article: 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

Main article: Zaglossus robustus

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

[edit] References

^ Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M.. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.
^ Leary, T., Seri, L., Flannery, T., Wright, D., Hamilton, S., Helgen, K., Singadan, R., Menzies, J., Allison, A., James, R., Aplin, K., Salas, L. & Dickman, C. (2008). Zaglossus attenboroughi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 December 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is listed as critically endangered.

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

[edit] See also

Fossil Monotremes

[edit] External links

Wikispecies has information related to: Zaglossus

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

[msw3-0] Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M.. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.

[1] Leary, T., Seri, L., Flannery, T., Wright, D., Hamilton, S., Helgen, K., Singadan, R., Menzies, J., Allison, A., James, R., Aplin, K., Salas, L. & Dickman, C. (2008). Zaglossus attenboroughi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 December 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is listed as critically endangered.

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