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Tachyglossidae (echidna)
Taxonomy
Tachyglossidae was named by Gill (1872). It is extant.
It was assigned to Tachyglossa by Gill (1872); and to Monotremata by Murray (1978), Carroll (1988), Griffiths et al. (1991), Nowak (1991), Rich et al. (2005), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Rowe et al. (2008).
It was assigned to Tachyglossa by Gill (1872); and to Monotremata by Murray (1978), Carroll (1988), Griffiths et al. (1991), Nowak (1991), Rich et al. (2005), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Rowe et al. (2008).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1872 | Tachyglossidae Gill |
| 1978 | Tachyglossidae Murray p. 41 |
| 1988 | Tachyglossidae Carroll |
| 1991 | Tachyglossidae Griffiths et al. p. 90 |
| 1991 | Tachyglossidae Nowak |
| 2005 | Tachyglossidae Rich et al. p. 913 |
| 2005 | Tachyglossidae Wilson and Reeder |
| 2008 | Tachyglossidae 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.
Fm. Tachyglossidae Gill 1872 [echidna]
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G. †Murrayglossus Flannery et al. 2022
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†Murrayglossus hacketti Glauert 1914 [Hackett's Giant Echidna]
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 setosus Geoffroy 1803
Invalid names: Echidna hystrix Home 1802 [synonym]
Tachyglossus aculeatus multiaculeatus Rothschild 1905
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 diamondi Flannery and Groves 1998
Invalid names: Zaglossus bubuensis Lauri 1952 [synonym]
Zaglossus bartoni smeenki 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 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]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Luo et al. 2003, Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Pliocene to the top of the Holocene or 5.33300 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.58 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.58 Ma
Collections (17 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pliocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Echidna robusta (95862) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia ( New South Wales) | Zaglossus sp. (182621) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Zaglossus ramsay (136221) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Echidna oweni (95899) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Megalibgwilia ramsayi (136073 136076 181305) Tachyglossus aculeatus (136159 136430) Zaglossus ramsayi (28298) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Zaglossus hacketti (96022) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Tasmania) | Zaglossus harrissoni (95911) | |
| Quaternary | Australia (New South Wales) | Tachyglossus aculeatus (181307) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Tachyglossus aculeatus (136075) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Echidna oweni (95863) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Tachyglossus aculeatus (182957) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Tachyglossus aculeatus (21688) |