View source for Long-beaked echidna

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| name = Long-beaked echidnas<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Monotremata | id = 10300010 | pages = 1–2}}</ref>
| image = Long-beakedEchidna.jpg
| fossil_range = [[Miocene]] to present
| image_caption = [[Western long-beaked echidna]]<br>(''Zaglossus bruijni'')
| taxon = Zaglossus
| authority = [[Theodore Nicholas Gill|Gill]], 1877
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision = 
''[[Zaglossus attenboroughi]]''<br/>
''[[Zaglossus bartoni]]'' <br/>
''[[Zaglossus bruijni]]''<br/>
†'''''[[Zaglossus hacketti]]'''''<br/>
†'''''[[Zaglossus robustus]]''''' 
| type_species = ''[[Western long-beaked echidna|Zaglossus bruijni]]''
| type_species_authority = [[Wilhelm Peters|Peters]] and [[Giacomo Doria|Doria]], 1876
}}
The '''long-beaked echidnas''' make up one of the two [[genus|genera]] (Genus '''''Zaglossus''''') of [[echidna]]. Echidna is a spiny [[monotreme]] that lives in [[New Guinea]]. There are three living [[species]], and two extinct ones.

Echidnas are one of only two types of living mammals that lay eggs.

==Species==
===''Zaglossus attenboroughi''===

*Habitat: regions of [[New Guinea]] at higher elevation than highland forests
*Era: the present
*Status: [[Endangered species|Endangered]]

Remarks: Species described from one sample only. May be [[endangered species|endangered]], or [[locally extinct]]. 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
*Status: [[Endangered species|Endangered]]

Remarks: see [[Eastern Long-beaked Echidna]]

===''Zaglossus bruijni''===

*Habitat: [[highland forest]]s of [[New Guinea]]
*Era: the present
*Status: [[Endangered species|Endangered]]

Remarks: see [[Western Long-beaked Echidna]]

===''Zaglossus hacketti''===

*Habitat: [[Western Australia]]
*Era: Upper [[Pleistocene]]

Remarks: This species is known only from a few bones. At a metre long, it was huge for an echidna and for [[monotreme]]s in general.

===''Zaglossus robustus''===

*Habitat: [[Tasmania]]
*Era: [[Pleistocene]]

Remarks: This species is known from a [[fossil]] skull about 65&nbsp;cm long.

==References==
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*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

== Other websites ==
* EDGE of Existence [http://www.edgeofexistence.org/species/species_info.asp?id=2 ''(Zaglossus spp.)''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225202509/http://www.edgeofexistence.org/species/species_info.asp?id=2 |date=2007-12-25 }} - Saving the World's most Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species
* {{ARKive|long-beaked-echidna/zaglossus-spp}}
* [http://www.animalinfo.org/species/zaglbrui.htm A pretty good summary, including references on animalinfo.org]

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{{Commonscat|Zaglossus}}


[[Category:Monotremes]]
[[Category:Mammals of Oceania]]