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The long-beaked echidnas make up one of the two genera (Genus Zaglossus) of echidna, a spiny monotreme that lives in New Guinea. There are three living species, and two extinct species.

    Long-beaked echidna
            Zaglossus attenboroughi
            Zaglossus bartoni
            Zaglossus bruijni
            Zaglossus hacketti
            Zaglossus robustus

Name	Long-beaked echidnas
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Regnum	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Classis	Mammalia
Ordo	Monotremata
Familia	Tachyglossidae
Genus	Zaglossus
Genus Authority	Theodore Nicholas Gill
Subdivision Ranks	Species
Subdivision	Species
Type Species	Western Long-beaked Echidna
Type Species Authority	Wilhelm Peters

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Zaglossus attenboroughi

Habitat: regions of New Guinea at higher elevation than highland forests

Era: the present

Remarks: see Sir David's Long-beaked Echidna

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Zaglossus bartoni

Habitat:on the central cordillera between the Paniai Lakes and the Nanneau Range, as well as the Huon Peninsula

Era: the present

Remarks: see Eastern Long-beaked Echidna

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Zaglossus bruijni

Habitat: highland forests of New Guinea

Era: the present

Remarks: see Western Long-beaked Echidna

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Zaglossus hacketti

Habitat: Western Australia

Era: Upper Pleistocene

Remarks: This species is known only from a few bones. At a metre long, it was huge for an echidna and for monotremes in general.

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Zaglossus robustus

Habitat: Tasmania

Era: Pleistocene

Remarks: This species is known from a fossil skull about 65 cm long.

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