5" x 7" print of original artwork Tachyglossus Aculeatus by Mercer Hanau. (biartmuseum.org)
The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), also called the short-nosed echidna, is one of four living species of echidna and the only member of the genus Tachyglossus. (wikipedia.org)
Since Shaw first described the species, its name has undergone four revisions: from M. aculeata to Ornithorhynchus hystrix, Echidna hystrix, Echidna aculeata and finally, Tachyglossus aculeatus. (wikipedia.org)
To understand more about how echidna penises work, Fenelon's team turned to short-beaked echidnas ( Tachyglossus aculeatus ) at a wildlife sanctuary in Australia. (livescience.com)
In 1811 Johann Illiger published an overhaul of the Linnaean system and replaced Cuvier's genus name Echidna with Tachylossus (fast tongue) making the full binomial Tachyglossus aculeatus . (upenn.edu)
Wildlife species known to occur on Rainbow Stay include short-beaked echidnas ( Tachyglossus aculeatus ), brushtail possums ( Trichosurus vulpecula ), southern brown bandicoots ( Isoodon obesulus ), microbats and flying foxes. (hsi.org.au)
Wildlife is abundant on the property and includes northern quolls ( Dasyurus hallucatus ), brown tree snakes ( Boiga irregularis ), short-beaked echidnas ( Tachyglossus aculeatus ), laughing ( Dacelo novaeguineae ) and blue-winged ( Dacelo leachii ) kookaburras, red-tailed black cockatoos ( Calyptorhynchus banksii ) and scaly-breasted lorikeets ( Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus ). (hsi.org.au)
Monotremes survived the mass extinction that took out non-avian dinosaurs , but all of Earth's most ancient surviving mammals are declining in numbers now, except for Australia's short-beaked echidna ( Tachyglossus aculeatus ). (sciencealert.com)
Reproduction in the short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus: field observations at an elevated site in south-east Queensland. (allenpress.com)
Heat tolerance and cold indifference in the short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus: body temperature management in a mammalian constitutional eurytherm, PhD Thesis, University of Queensland, St Lucia. (allenpress.com)
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Tachyglossus is a scientific name that refers to a mammalian animal commonly known as echidna or spiny anteater. (thesaurus.net)
It was larger but was clearly a type of echidna, and initially given the name Tachyglossus bruijnii after A. A. Bruijn, a Dutch merchant and natural historian, who donated the first skull to the Museo Civicio de Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria at Genoa. (upenn.edu)
Tachyglossidae1
any of the spine-covered monotreme mammals of the genera Tachyglossus of Australia and Zaglossus of New Guinea: family Tachyglossidae. (dictionary.com)
Zaglossus1
any of several insectivorous monotremes of the genera Tachyglossus, of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, and Zaglossus, of New Guinea, that have claws and a slender snout and are covered with coarse hair and long spines. (dictionary.com)
Mammals2
Tachyglossus is an ancient genus of dwarf elephant-like mammals that lived during the Miocene epoch. (thesaurus.net)
Ornithorhynchus and Tachyglossus are oviparous mammals. (jeeneetqna.in)
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Regardless of what it's called, the tachyglossus is a fascinating and unique animal. (thesaurus.net)