Family Tachyglossidae Gill 1872 (echidna)
Mammalia - Monotremata - Tachyglossidae
Parent taxon: Monotremata according to T. Rowe et al. 2008
See also Carroll 1988, Gill 1872, Griffiths et al. 1991, Murray 1978, Nowak 1991, Rich et al. 2005 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: Agathodonta, Cacodonta, Kollikodontidae, Kryoryctes, Ornithorhynchidae, Patagorhynchus, Platypoda, Spondilocoelia, Steropodontidae, Stirtodon, Tachyglossa
Subtaxa: Megalibgwilia Tachyglossus Zaglossus
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
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