Tachyglossus aculeatus
Tachyglossus aculeatus (binomen a Georgio Shaw anno 1792 statutum) est animal vertebratum ordinis Monotrematum familiaeque Tachyglossidarum. Qui est sola generis species, cui nomen est Tachyglossus, ab Ioanne Illiger anno 1811 statutum; quod nomen e verbis Graecis ταχύς 'celer' et γλῶσσα 'lingua' componitur. Tachyglossus aculeatus in Australia, Tasmania, Nova Guinea habitat.

Subspecies 
 Tachyglossus (aculeatus) acanthion (Collett, 1884) 
 Tachyglossus (aculeatus) aculeatus (Shaw, 1792)
 Tachyglossus (aculeatus) lawesii (Ramsay, 1877)
 Tachyglossus (aculeatus) multiaculeatus (Rothschild, 1905) 
 Tachyglossus (aculeatus) setosus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)

Taeniola et pinacotheca

Notae 
 Flannery, T.F. and Groves, C.P. 1998. "A revision of the genus Zaglossus (Monotremata, Tachyglossidae), with description of new species and subspecies." Mammalia 62: 367–96.
 Groves, C. P. 1993. "Order Monotremata." In Mammal Species of the World, ed. secunda, ed. D. E. Wilson et D. M. Reeder, 13. Vasingtoniae et Londinii: Smithsonian Institution Press.
 Groves, C. P. 2005. "Order Monotremata." In Mammal Species of the World, ed. tertia, ed. D. E. Wilson et D. M. Reeder, 1–2. Baltimorae: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Nexus externi 

 J. Parker (ABC), Echidna Love Trains 
 P. Rismiller, Echidnas and Goannas of Kangaroo Island 
 Doug Stewart, The Enigma of the Echidna, National Wildlife, April/May 2003. 

Mammalia Australiae
Species animalium
Tachyglossidae
Taxa Shaw
Taxa 1792