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Monotremata (monotreme)
Taxonomy
Monotremata was named by Bonaparte (1838). It is extant.
It was corrected as Monotremati by Jaekel (1911); it was reranked as the unranked clade Monotremata by Gardiner (1982), Rowe (1988) and Velazco et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Ovovivipara by Bonaparte (1850); to Ornithodelphia by Gill (1872); to Paratheria by Jaekel (1911); to Ornithodelphia by McKenna (1975); to Prototheria by Huxley (1880), Flower (1883), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Gadow (1898), Gregory (1910), Woodburne and Tedford (1975), Murray (1978), Carroll (1988), Griffiths et al. (1991) and Nowak (1991); to Marsupionta by Kirsch and Mayer (1998); to Yinotheria by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004); to Mammalia by Archer et al. (1985), Wible (1991), Rich et al. (2001) and Wilson and Reeder (2005); to Australosphenida by Luo et al. (2001), Rauhut et al. (2002) and Averianov and Lopatin (2011); and to Mammalia by Gardiner (1982), Rowe (1988), Rowe et al. (2008) and Velazco et al. (2022).
It was corrected as Monotremati by Jaekel (1911); it was reranked as the unranked clade Monotremata by Gardiner (1982), Rowe (1988) and Velazco et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Ovovivipara by Bonaparte (1850); to Ornithodelphia by Gill (1872); to Paratheria by Jaekel (1911); to Ornithodelphia by McKenna (1975); to Prototheria by Huxley (1880), Flower (1883), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Gadow (1898), Gregory (1910), Woodburne and Tedford (1975), Murray (1978), Carroll (1988), Griffiths et al. (1991) and Nowak (1991); to Marsupionta by Kirsch and Mayer (1998); to Yinotheria by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004); to Mammalia by Archer et al. (1985), Wible (1991), Rich et al. (2001) and Wilson and Reeder (2005); to Australosphenida by Luo et al. (2001), Rauhut et al. (2002) and Averianov and Lopatin (2011); and to Mammalia by Gardiner (1982), Rowe (1988), Rowe et al. (2008) and Velazco et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1838 | Monotremata Bonaparte |
1850 | Monotremata Bonaparte p. 1 |
1872 | Monotremata Gill p. 27 |
1880 | Monotremata Huxley p. 653 |
1883 | Monotremata Flower p. 183 |
1891 | Monotremata Flower and Lydekker p. 88 |
1898 | Monotremata Gadow p. 39 |
1910 | Monotremata Gregory p. 464 |
1911 | Monotremati Jaekel p. 195 |
1975 | Monotremata McKenna p. 40 |
1975 | Monotremata Woodburne and Tedford p. 3 |
1978 | Monotremata Murray p. 41 |
1982 | Monotremata Gardiner p. 229 |
1985 | Monotremata Archer et al. p. 364 |
1988 | Monotremata Carroll |
1988 | Monotremata Rowe p. 245 figs. Figure 3 |
1991 | Monotremata Griffiths et al. p. 90 |
1991 | Monotremata Nowak |
1991 | Monotremata Wible |
1998 | Monotremata Kirsch and Mayer p. 1234 |
2001 | Monotremata Luo et al. p. 56 |
2001 | Monotremata Rich et al. p. 114 |
2002 | Monotremata Rauhut et al. |
2004 | Monotremata Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 206-210 |
2005 | Monotremata Wilson and Reeder |
2008 | Monotremata Rowe et al. p. 1241 |
2011 | Monotremata Averianov and Lopatin p. 34 |
2022 | Monotremata Velazco et al. |
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Or. Monotremata Bonaparte 1838 [monotreme]
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Fm. †Kollikodontidae Flannery et al. 1995
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Fm. Ornithorhynchidae Gray 1825 [platypus]
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G. †Obdurodon Woodburne and Tedford 1975
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†Obdurodon dicksoni Archer et al. 1992
†Obdurodon insignis Woodburne and Tedford 1975
†Obdurodon tharalkooschild Pian et al. 2013
G. Ornithorhynchus Blumenbach 1800
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Fm. Tachyglossidae Gill 1872 [echidna]
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G. Tachyglossus Illiger 1811
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Tachyglossus aculeatus Shaw 1792 [short-beaked echidna]
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Tachyglossus aculeatus acanthion Collett 1884
Tachyglossus aculeatus aculeatus Shaw 1792
Tachyglossus aculeatus lawesii Ramsay 1877
Tachyglossus aculeatus multiaculeatus Rothschild 1905
Invalid names: Echidna hystrix Home 1802 [synonym]
Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus Geoffroy 1803
Invalid names: Echidna Cuvier 1797 [replaced]
G. Zaglossus Gill 1877
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Zaglossus attenboroughi Flannery and Groves 1998
Zaglossus bartoni Thomas 1907
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Zaglossus bartoni bartoni Thomas 1907
Zaglossus bartoni clunius Thomas and Rothschild 1922
Zaglossus bartoni smeenki Flannery and Groves 1998
Invalid names: Zaglossus bubuensis Lauri 1952 [synonym]
Zaglossus bartoni diamondi Flannery and Groves 1998
Zaglossus bruijni Peters and Doria 1876
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Invalid names: Bruijnia tridactyla Du Bois 1884 [synonym], Proechidna nigroaculeata Rothschild 1892 [synonym], Proechidna villosissima Dubois 1884 [synonym]
†Zaglossus hacketti Glauert 1914 [Hackett's Giant Echidna]
†Zaglossus robusta Dun 1894
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Invalid names: Ornithorhynchus maximus Dun 1894 [synonym], Zaglossus harrissoni Scott and Lord 1922 [synonym]
Invalid names: Acanthoglossus Gervais 1877 [synonym], Bruynia Dubois 1881 [synonym], Echidna oweni Kreft 1868 [nomen vanum], Proechidna Gervais 1877 [synonym], Prozaglossus Kerbert 1912 [synonym]
Invalid names: Agathodonta Ameghino 1889 [empty], Platypoda Gill 1872 [empty], Spondilocoelia Ameghino 1889 [empty], Steropodontidae Flannery et al. 1995 [empty], Tachyglossa Gill 1872 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available