What is Long-beaked echidna?
{{Automatic Taxobox | name = Long-beaked echidnas<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Monotremata | id = 10300010 | pages = 1–2}}</ref> | image = Long-beakedEchidna.jpg | fossil_range = [[Miocene]] to present | image_caption = [[Western long-beaked echidna]]<br>(''Zaglossus bruijni'') | taxon = Zaglossus | authority = [[Theodore Nicholas Gill|Gill]], 1877 | subdivision_ranks = [[Species]] | subdivision = ''[[Zaglossus attenboroughi]]''<br/> ''[[Zaglossus bartoni]]'' <br/> ''[[Zaglossus bruijni]]''<br/> †'''''[[Zaglossus hacketti]]'''''<br/> †'''''[[Zaglossus robustus]]''''' | type_species = ''[[Western long-beaked echidna|Zaglossus bruijni]]'' | type_species_authority = [[Wilhelm Peters|Peters]] and [[Giacomo Doria|Doria]], 1876 }} The '''long-beaked echidnas''' make up one of the two [[genus|genera]] (Genus '''''Zaglossus''''') of [[echidna]]. Echidna is a spiny [[monotreme]] that lives in [[New Guinea]]. There are three living [[species]], and two extinct ones. Echidnas are one of only two types of living mammals that lay eggs. ==Species== ===''Zaglossus attenboroughi''=== *Habitat: regions of [[New Guinea]] at higher elevation than highland forests *Era: the present *Status: [[Endangered species|Endangered]] Remarks: Species described from one sample only. May be [[endangered species|endangered]], or [[locally extinct]]. See [[Sir David's Long-beaked Echidna]] ===''Zaglossus bartoni''=== *Habitat:on the central cordillera between the Paniai Lakes and the Nanneau Range, as well as the Huon Peninsula *Era: the present *Status: [[Endangered species|Endangered]] Remarks: see [[Eastern Long-beaked Echidna]] ===''Zaglossus bruijni''=== *Habitat: [[highland forest]]s of [[New Guinea]] *Era: the present *Status: [[Endangered species|Endangered]] Remarks: see [[Western Long-beaked Echidna]] ===''Zaglossus hacketti''=== *Habitat: [[Western Australia]] *Era: Upper [[Pleistocene]] Remarks: This species is known only from a few bones. At a metre long, it was huge for an echidna and for [[monotreme]]s in general. ===''Zagl