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Western long-beaked echidna

Index Western long-beaked echidna

The western long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bruijni) is one of the four extant echidnas and one of three species of Zaglossus that occur in New Guinea. [1]

25 relations: Alpine tundra, Animal, Bird's Head Peninsula, Chordate, Conservation International, Critically endangered, Echidna, Foja Mountains, Giacomo Doria, Indonesia, International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN Red List, John Tunney (naturalist), Kimberley (Western Australia), Long-beaked echidna, Mammal, Monotreme, Neontology, New Guinea, Papua (province), Short-beaked echidna, Type species, West Papua (province), Western Australia, Wilhelm Peters.

Alpine tundra

Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high altitude.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Bird's Head Peninsula

The Bird's Head Peninsula (Indonesian: Kepala Burung, Vogelkop) or Doberai Peninsula is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea and the major part of the Province of West Papua, Indonesia.

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Conservation International

Conservation International (CI) is an American nonprofit environmental organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

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Critically endangered

A critically endangered (CR) species is one which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

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Echidna

Echidnas, sometimes known as spiny anteaters, belong to the family Tachyglossidae in the monotreme order of egg-laying mammals.

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Foja Mountains

The Foja Mountains (Foja Range, Foya Mountains) (Pegunungan Foja) are located just north of the Mamberamo river basin in Papua, Indonesia.

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Giacomo Doria

Marquis Giacomo Doria (1 November 1840 – 19 September 1913) was an Italian naturalist, botanist, herpetologist, and politician.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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IUCN Red List

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.

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John Tunney (naturalist)

John Thomas Tunney (1871-1929) was a naturalist and collector of animal specimens, active in the West and North of Australia.

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Kimberley (Western Australia)

The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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Long-beaked echidna

The long-beaked echidnas (genus Zaglossus) make up one of the two extant genera of echidnas, spiny monotremes that live in New Guinea.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Monotreme

Monotremes are one of the three main groups of living mammals, along with placentals (Eutheria) and marsupials (Metatheria).

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Neontology

Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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Papua (province)

Papua is the largest and easternmost province of Indonesia, comprising most of Western New Guinea.

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Short-beaked echidna

The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is one of four living species of echidna and the only member of the genus Tachyglossus.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s).

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West Papua (province)

West Papua (Papua Barat) is a province of Indonesia.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Wilhelm Peters

Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 in Koldenbüttel – 20 April 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer.

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Western Long-Beaked Echidna, Western Long-beaked Echidna, Zaglossus bruijni, Zaglossus bruijnii, Zaglossus brujinii.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_long-beaked_echidna

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