Tachyglossus aculeatus

Tachyglossus aculeatus (binomen a Georgio Shaw anno 1792 statutum) est animal vertebratum ordinis Monotrematum familiaeque Tachyglossidarum. Qui est sola generis species, cui nomen est Tachyglossus, ab Ioanne Illiger anno 1811 statutum; quod nomen e verbis Graecis ταχύς 'celer' et γλῶσσα 'lingua' componitur. Tachyglossus aculeatus in Australia, Tasmania, Nova Guinea habitat.

T. aculeatus

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Animalia

Subphylum : Vertebrata 
Classis : Mammalia 
Ordo : Monotremata 
Familia : Tachyglossidae 
Genus : Tachyglossus 

Tachyglossus aculeatus 
Shaw, 1792  

Subspecies

• Tachyglossus (aculeatus) acanthion (Collett, 1884)
• Tachyglossus (aculeatus) aculeatus (Shaw, 1792)
• Tachyglossus (aculeatus) lawesii (Ramsay, 1877)
• Tachyglossus (aculeatus) multiaculeatus (Rothschild, 1905)
• Tachyglossus (aculeatus) setosus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)

Taeniola et pinacotheca

Tachyglossus, cavum defensorium aedificans

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  Tachyglossus per agrum ambulans
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  Mortuus tachyglossus aculeatus, in museo Bristolii iacens
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  Sceletus tachyglossi

Notae

• 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: 367–96.
• Groves, C. P. 1993. "Order Monotremata." In Mammal Species of the World, ed. secunda, ed. D. E. Wilson et D. M. Reeder, 13. Vasingtoniae et Londinii: Smithsonian Institution Press.
• Groves, C. P. 2005. "Order Monotremata." In Mammal Species of the World, ed. tertia, ed. D. E. Wilson et D. M. Reeder, 1–2. Baltimorae: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Nexus externi

Tachyglossus sp ab Ioanne Gould pictus.

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Tachyglossos aculeatos spectant.

Vide "Tachyglossus aculeatus" apud Vicispecies.

• J. Parker (ABC), Echidna Love Trains (Anglice)
• P. Rismiller, Echidnas and Goannas of Kangaroo Island (Anglice)
• Doug Stewart, The Enigma of the Echidna, National Wildlife, April/May 2003. (Anglice)