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
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living Australia
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://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.
