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Tachyglossus aculeatus
(Shaw, 1792)
- short-beaked echidna
(mammal)
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Tachyglossus (Genus) - short-nosed echidna
..Tachyglossus aculeatus (Species) - short-beaked echidna
....Tachyglossus aculeatus acanthion (Subspecies)
....Tachyglossus aculeatus aculeatus (Subspecies)
....Tachyglossus aculeatus lawesii (Subspecies)
....Tachyglossus aculeatus multiaculeatus (Subspecies)
....Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus (Subspecies)
Authorship
Original name
:
Shaw, 1792:pl. 109.
Types
Type, by synonymy, of
:
Tachyglossus
(Genus)
Illiger, 1811
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Tachyglossus aculeatus aculeatus
(Shaw, 1792)
Combinations
Different combination
:
Myrmecophaga aculeata
Shaw, 1792
Ref:
MSW, 1993
Synonyms
Synonymous name
:
Echidna novaehollandiae
Lacépède, 1799
Synonymous name
:
Tachyglossus novaehollandiae
(Lacépède, 1799)
Ref:
MSW, 1993
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
gewone mierenegel
Ref:
B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
:
Australische mierenegel
Ref:
B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
:
eigenlijke mierenegel
Ref:
1992
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
short-beaked echidna
Ref:
C.P. Groves, 2005
: 1.
:
short-nosed echidna
Ref:
G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
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