Species profile—Tachyglossus aculeatus (short-beaked echidna)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Tachyglossidae (Echidnas) → Tachyglossus aculeatus (short-beaked echidna)
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Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Tachyglossidae (Echidnas)
- Scientific name
- Tachyglossus aculeatus (Shaw, 1792)
- Common name
- short-beaked echidna
- Type reference
- Shaw, G. (1792). Myrmecophaga aculeata. The Procupine Ant-eater. The Naturalists' Miscellany: containing accurate and elegant coloured figures of the most curious and beautiful productions of nature; with descriptions in Latin and English in the Linnaen manner. To which are added descriptions more at large, and calculated for general information. Vol 3 No. 36 London : F.P. Nodder & Co.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 838
- Alternate name(s)
- spiny anteater
porcupine - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- SL
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
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Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=838.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
