- quill-covered
monotremes (egg-laying mammals)
belonging to the
family Tachyglossidae /tækiˈɡlɒsɪdiː/,
living in
Australia and New Guinea. The four extant...
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contain the
platypus and its
extinct relatives. The
other family is the
Tachyglossidae, or echidnas.
Within the
Ornithorhynchidae are the main
Cenozoic genera...
- Ornithorhynchidae:
platypus Genus Ornithorhynchus Platypus, O.
anatinus Family Tachyglossidae:
echidnas Genus Tachyglossus Short-beaked echidna, T.
aculeatus T. a...
- short-beaked
echidna is the only
member of its genus,
sharing the
family Tachyglossidae with the
extant species of the
genus Zaglossus that
occur in New Guinea...
- Groves, C.P. (1998). "A
revision of the
genus Zaglossus (Monotremata,
Tachyglossidae), with
description of new
species and subspecies" (PDF). Mammalia. 62...
-
Groves C.P. (1998). "A
revision of the
genus Zaglossus (Monotremata,
Tachyglossidae), with
description of new
species and subspecies". Mammalia. 62 (3):...
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Mammals are
divided into two
subclasses based on
reproductive techniques: egg
laying mammals (the monotremes), and live
birth mammals. The
second subclass...
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Chimento et al., 2023
Genus Ornithorhynchus Blumenbach, 1800
Family Tachyglossidae Gill, 1872
Genus †Megalibgwilia Griffiths,
Wells & Barrie, 1991 Genus...
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Monotremata species by
family Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata class Mammalia (unranked)
Australosphenida Tachyglossidae (Echidnas)
Ornithorhynchidae Category...
- C. P. (Jan 1998). "A
revision of the
genus Zaglossus (Monotremata,
Tachyglossidae), with
description of new
species and subspecies". Mammalia. 6 (3):...
