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Tachyglossus aculeatus (short-beaked echidna)
Taxonomy
Myrmecophaga aculeatus was named by Shaw (1792). It is extant. It is the type species of Tachyglossus.
It was recombined as Tachyglossus aculeatus by Steudel and Beattie (1993) and Augee et al. (2006).
It was recombined as Tachyglossus aculeatus by Steudel and Beattie (1993) and Augee et al. (2006).
Subspecies
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1792 | Myrmecophaga aculeata Shaw |
| 1792 | Myrmecophaga aculeatus Shaw |
| 1802 | Ornithorhynchus hystrix Home |
| 1808 | Echidna breviaculeata Tiedemann |
| 1811 | Tachyglossus aculeata Illiger p. 114 |
| 1836 | Echidna australis Lesson |
| 1838 | Echidna hystrix Gray p. 335 |
| 1894 | Echidna aculeata Lydekker p. 241 |
| 1991 | Tachyglossus aculeata Griffiths et al. p. 90 |
| 1993 | Tachyglossus aculeatus Steudel and Beattie |
| 2006 | Tachyglossus aculeatus Augee et al. p. 5 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
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
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Luo et al. 2003, Hopson 1973, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0117 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0117 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Tachyglossus aculeatus (136159 136430) | |
| Quaternary | Australia (New South Wales) | Tachyglossus aculeatus (181307) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Tachyglossus aculeatus (136075) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Tachyglossus aculeatus (182957) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Tachyglossus aculeatus (21688) |