Spiny Anteater
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Echidna - (kd´n) or spiny anteater, primitive animal of the order Monotremata, the egg-laying mammals.
Short-beaked echidna, common echidna, spiny anteater
Tachyglossus aculeatus
Along with platypuses, echidnas are the only egg-laying mammals.
Life span
They are long-lived - reaching up to 49 years in captivity.
Spiny Anteater
Also called the echidna, this is a primitive, egg-laying mammal from Australia and New Guinea.
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Spiny Anteater:
The spiny anteater is a monotreme. And monotremes are a type of egg-laying mammal.
The spiny anteater can only be found in Australia, Tasmania and parts of New Guinea.
Short-beak: The Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), also known as the Spiny anteater because of its diet of ants and termites, is one of four living species of echidna and the only member of the genus Tachyglossus.
The closest ally being with the spiny anteater. Found in Australia only, this egg laying mammal, including the 5 or 6 in. tail.
Pholidota - pangolins (spiny anteaters)
There are seven species of pangolins in the world. They eat ants and live in Asia and Africa. They have very long tongues and their bodies, except for their faces and bellies, are covered in large scales.
Echidnas are known better as spiny anteaters, although they are not related to them, besides that fact that both anteaters and echidnas eat ants and termites. The echidna is found in parts of New Guinea and Australia.
conventionally treated as comprising a single order Monotremata, though a recent classification[2] proposes to divide them into the orders Platypoda (the Platypus along with its fossil relatives) and Tachyglossa (the echidnas, or spiny anteaters).
Echidnas are often called "spiny anteaters" because the upper part of their body and tail are covered in long, sharp spines. They are monotremes, which are primitive, egg-laying mammals.
There are only three living monotremes, the duck-billed platypus and four species of echidna, or "spiny anteaters," such as the one shown at left. All of them are found only in Australia and New Guinea.
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Shellshear, J. L. 1930. A study of the arteries of the brain of the spiny anteater (Echidna aculeata), to illustrate the principles of arterial distribution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 218:1-36.
The name scaly anteater is applied to the pangolin; the banded anteater (Myrmecobius fasciatus) is a marsupial, and the spiny anteater (Echidna) is one of the monotremes (see Marsupialia and Monotremata).
 See also: Anteater, Platypus, Echidna, Burro, Termite
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