Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals Subclass Prototheria Gill, 1872 - monotremes Order Monotremata Bonaparte, 1837 - monotremes Family Tachyglossidae Gill, 1872 - spiny anteaters Genus Tachyglossus Illiger, 1811 - short-nosed echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus (Shaw, 1792) - short-beaked echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus lawesii Ramsay, 1877