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Tachyglossus
Taxonomy
Tachyglossus was named by Illiger (1811). It is extant. Its type is Myrmecophaga aculeatus.
It was reranked as Echidna (Tachyglossus) by Ramsay (1877).
It was assigned to Echidna by Ramsay (1877); and to Tachyglossidae by Carroll (1988), Griffiths et al. (1991), Rich et al. (2005) and Rowe et al. (2008).
It was reranked as Echidna (Tachyglossus) by Ramsay (1877).
It was assigned to Echidna by Ramsay (1877); and to Tachyglossidae by Carroll (1988), Griffiths et al. (1991), Rich et al. (2005) and Rowe et al. (2008).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1797 | Echidna Cuvier |
| 1811 | Tachyglossus Illiger p. 114 |
| 1877 | Echidna (Tachyglossus) Ramsay |
| 1884 | Echidna Owen |
| 1894 | Echidna Lydekker p. 241 |
| 1988 | Tachyglossus Carroll |
| 1991 | Tachyglossus Griffiths et al. p. 90 |
| 2005 | Tachyglossus Rich et al. p. 913 |
| 2008 | Tachyglossus Rowe et al. p. 1241 |
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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.
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]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973, Nowak 1991, Luo et al. 2003 | |||||
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) | T. aculeatus (136159 136430) | |
| Quaternary | Australia (New South Wales) | T. aculeatus (181307) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | T. aculeatus (136075) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | T. aculeatus (182957) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | T. aculeatus (21688) |