Subspecies Tachyglossus aculeatus aculeatus (Shaw, 1792)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Myrmecophaga aculeata Shaw, G. 1792. Myrmecophaga aculeata. The Porcupine 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 Linnaean manner. To which are added descriptions more at large, and calculated for general information. No. 36. London : F.P. Nodder & Co. Vol. 3. [6 unnumbered pages of text, pl. 109].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, the region of Sydney, NSW (as New Holland).
• Echidna novaehollandiae Lacépède, B.G.É. (as Lacepède) 1799. Discours d'Ouverture et de Clôture du Cours d'Histoire Naturelle Donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 1'an VII de la République, et tableaux méthodiques des mammifères et des oiseaux. Paris : Plassan 94 pp. [publication date established from Sherborn, C.D. 1899. Lacepède's 'Tableaux...des mammifères et des oiseaux,' 1799. Nat. Sci., Lond. 15: 406–409 [409]] [11, tableau] [tableau des divisions, sous-divisions, ordres et genres des mammifères].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).
• Ornithorhynchus hystrix Home, E. 1802. Description of the anatomy of the Ornithorhynchus hystrix. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 92: 348-364 pls 10-13 [348] [nom. nov. for Myrmecophaga aculeata Shaw, 1792].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Echidna longiaculeata 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] [nom. nov. for Myrmecophaga aculeata Shaw, 1792].
• Acanthonotus myrmecophagus Goldfuss, G.A. 1809. Vergleichende Naturbeschreibung der Säugethiere. Erlangen : Waltherschen Kunst-und Buchhandlung xxi 315-41 pls. [309] [nom. nov. for Myrmecophaga aculeata Shaw, 1792].
• Echidna australiensis Lesson, R.P. 1827. Manuel de Mammalogie, ou histoire naturelle des mammifères. Paris : Roret xvi 442 pp. [318] [nom. nov. for Myrmecophaga aculeata Shaw, 1792].
• Ornithorhynchus eracinius Mudie, R. 1829. The Picture of Australia: exhibiting New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, and all the settlements, from the first at Sydney to the last at the Swan River. London : Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. x 370 pp. [180].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Australia.
• Echidna australis Lesson, R.P. 1836. Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière des Mammifères et des Oiseaux Découverts Depuis la Mort de Buffon. Mammifères. Paris : Pourrat Frères 512 pp. 27 pls. [384 footnote 1 pl. 52] [nom. nov. for Myrmecophaga aculeata Shaw, 1792; the title of Lesson's work is recorded as Complément des Oeuvres de Buffon, ou histoire naturelle des animaux rare découverts par les naturalistes et les voyageurs depuis la mort de Buffon. Tome V. Suite des mammifères, on an added title page].
• Echidna brevicaudata Gray, J.E. 1865. [August 25]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5 [386] [name described by Iredale et al. (1834) as a 'Grayism'].
• Echidna corealis Krefft, G. 1872. Natural History. Section Monotremata—(continued). The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser Vol. 14 no. 652 28 Dec. 1872. 808, col. 1 pp. [808].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM 389 (Palmer Register) skin, skull not extracted, Cape York, QLD.
• Echidna orientalis Krefft, G. 1872. Natural History. Section Monotremata—(continued). The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser Vol. 14 no. 652 28 Dec. 1872. 808, col. 1 pp. [808].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown not found in AM, eastern Australia.
• Echidna acanthion Collett, R. 1884. Echidna acanthion, en sandsynligvis ubeskreven art myre-pindsvin fra Nord-Queensland. Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute 1884(13): 1-12 [1].

  Type data:

   Lectotype UZMO 6092 ♂ skin & skeleton, Gracemere near Rockhampton, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Johnson, D.H. 1964. Mammals of the Arnhem Land Expedition. 427-515 pls 1-16 in Specht, R.L. (ed.). Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. Zoology. Parkville : Melbourne University Press Vol. 4 xvii 533 pp. [434].
• Tachyglossus aculeatus ineptus Thomas, O. 1906. in Anon. On mammals collected in south-west Australia for Mr. W.E. Balston. Abstracts of Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 31: 1-2 [2].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 6.8.1.363 ♂ skin & skull, Parker Range, SE of Southern Cross, WA (as Parker's Range, Southern Cross) 1163 ft (altitude from skin label).
• Echidna sydneiensis Kowarzik, R. 1909. Resultate einer zusammenfassenden Bearbeitung der Monotremen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 35: 213-215 [214] [nomen novum for Echidna hystrix multiaculeata Rothschild, 1905].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mahoney, J.A. 1988. Tachyglossidae. pp. 4-6 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service 274 pp.

 

Generic Combinations

• Tachyglossus aculeatus aculeatus (Shaw, 1792).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

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		26-Aug-2023	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)