Subspecies Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus (Geoffroy, 1803)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Echidna setosa Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. 1803. Extrait des observations anatomiques de M. Home, sur l'echidné. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris 3(77): 225-227 [as 125-127] pls 14-16 [226 (as 126)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, the neighbourhood of Adventure Bay, Bruny Is., Tas. (Lieutenant Guthrie's specimen), TAS (Professeur Faujas' specimen) both as Nouvelle Hollande, au détroit de Bass.
• Echidna breviaculeata Tiedemann, F. 1808. Zoologie. Zu seinen Vorlesungen entworfen. Erster Bd Allgemeine Zoologie, Mensch und Säugthiere. Landshut & Heidelberg : Weberschen Buchhandlung xvi 612 pp. [publication date established from Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122 [34]] [592].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (the holotype is one of the syntypes (Lieutenant Guthrie's specimen) of Echidna setosa Geoffroy, 1803), the neighbourhood of Adventure Bay, Bruny Is., TAS (as Van-Diemensland).
• Platypus longirostra Perry, G. 1810. Platypus; or Ornithorinxus paradoxus. Arcana; or The Museum of Natural History: containing the most recent discovered objects. Embellished with coloured plates, and corresponding descriptions; with extracts relating to animals, and remarks of celebrated travellers; combining a general survey of nature. Pt 4. James Stratford : London. [publication date established from Mathews, G.M. & Iredale, T. 1912. 'Perry's Arcana' — an overlooked work. Victorian Naturalist 24: 7–16 [7]].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (the holotype is one of the syntypes (Lieutenant Guthrie's specimen) of Echidna setosa Geoffroy, 1803), the neighbourhood of Adventure Bay, Bruny Is., TAS (as Adventure Bay, Van Diemen's Land).
• Echidna hobartensis Kowarzik, R. 1909. Resultate einer zusammenfassenden Bearbeitung der Monotremen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 35: 213-215 [215] [nom. nud.; misidentified by Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122 [3] as available].

  Secondary source:

   Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Alpine, cave dweller, closed forest, crepuscular, hummock grassland, insectivorous, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low shrubland, low woodland, noctidiurnal, open forest, open heath, open scrub, predator, subtropical, tall open forest, tall open shrubland, tall shrubland, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, tussock grassland, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, oviparous.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2010		15-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)