The long-beaked echidnas make up one of the two genera (Genus Zaglossus) of echidna, a spiny monotreme that lives in New Guinea. There are three living species, and two extinct species.

Species

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Zaglossus attenboroughi

• Habitat: regions of New Guinea at higher elevation than highland forests
• Era: the present

Remarks: 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

Remarks: see Eastern Long-beaked Echidna

Zaglossus bruijni

• Habitat: highland forests of New Guinea
• Era: the present

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 monotremes in general.

Zaglossus robustus

• Habitat: Tasmania
• Era: Pleistocene

Remarks: This species is known from a fossil skull about 65 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

External links

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• ARKive - images and movies of the long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus spp.)
• Fossil Monotremes

Prehistoric monotremes | Monotremes

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