Subspecies Tachyglossus aculeatus multiaculeatus (Rothschild, 1905)
- Echidna hystrix multiaculeata Rothschild, W. 1905. Notes on Zaglossus and description of a new subspecies of Echidna hystrix. Novitates Zoologicae 12: 305-306 [306].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1939.4248 skin, skull extracted not found in BMNH, (BMNH 1939.4248 was formerly specimen no. G848 in the Zoological Museum, Tring; according to a label attached to its specimen stand G848 was bought from Gerrard (presumably the natural history agent, Edward Gerrard Jr.) ca. 1891; the Zoological Museum, Tring became an annexe of the British Museum (Natural History) on the death of Baron Rothschild in 1937; the Tring Museum Catalogue of Mounted Specimens records the locality of G848 as Adelaide, nevertheless Griffiths, M. 1978. The Biology of the Monotremes. New York : Academic Press x 367 pp. [60] believes the type material came from Kangaroo Is.), 'Extreme south of South Australia'; whereabouts unknown other syntypes not found in BMNH, locality unknown.
Distribution
States
South Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Kangaroo Island.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN)
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) |
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| 15-Oct-2010 | 26-Aug-2023 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |