Authority citation

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(3):367-396.

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Original name as described

Zaglossus attenboroughi

Other common names

Attenborough's Echidna · Attenborough's Long-nosed Echidna · Cyclops Long-beaked Echidna · Cyclops Long-nosed Echidna · Sir David's Long-beaked Echidna · Sir David's Long-nosed Echidna

Type material

RMNH.MAM.17301.a, RMNH.MAM.17301.b

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

Type locality

“‘Oost-top, Berg Rara, 1600 m,’ Cyclops Mountains, Dutch New Guinea [= Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia].”

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Indonesia

Subregion distribution

Indonesia(PP)

Distribution notes

Known from a single specimen collected from Berg Rara Mt in the Cyclops Mts, extreme N Papua Province, Indonesia on New Guinea. No other records of the species exist and it may be extinct, although an expedition to the Cyclops Mts in 2007 found recent digging activity and burrows, as well as local knowledge of the species, that implies the species is still there (Baillie et al., 2009).

Distribution references

Baillie, J. E., Turvey, S. T., & Waterman, C. (2009). Survival of Attenborough's long-beaked echidna Zaglossus attenboroughi in New Guinea. Oryx, 43(1), 146-148.

Taxonomy notes

may be a synonym of bartoni

Taxonomy notes citation

Leary, T., Seri, L., Flannery, T., Wright, D., Hamilton, S., Helgen, K., Singadan, R., Menzies, J., Allison, A., James, R., Aplin, K., Salas, L. & Dickman, C. 2016. Zaglossus attenboroughi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T136322A21964353. Downloaded on 12 September 2020.

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

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