Short-nosed echidna - Encyclopedia of Life

Tachyglossus aculeatus (Short Nosed Echidna) is a species of mammals in the family echidnas. They are found in australasia. They are carnivores. Individuals are known to live for 49.5 years.

URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Australasia
Attribution: https://www.oneearth.org/realms/australasia/

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URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875
Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue

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EOL has data for 46 attributes, including:

diet breadth
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DietBreadth
- Definition: Number of dietary categories eaten by an organism.
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1
ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Japan
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/1861060
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geographic range (size of area)
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/GeographicRangeArea
- Definition: The total extent of the geographic range of an organism.
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7829490.16
habitat breadth
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/HabitatBreadth
- Definition: Number of habitat layers used by an organism
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2
habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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arid
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000230
- Definition: An arid condition is an environmental condition in which annual precipitation is less than half of annual potential evapotranspiration.
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home range
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/HomeRange
- Definition: Size of the area within which everyday activities of individuals or groups (of any type) are typically restricted.
- Attribution: Kate E. Jones, Jon Bielby, Marcel Cardillo, Susanne A. Fritz, Justin O'Dell, C. David L. Orme, Kamran Safi, Wes Sechrest, Elizabeth H. Boakes, Chris Carbone, Christina Connolly, Michael J. Cutts, Janine K. Foster, Richard Grenyer, Michael Habib, Christopher A. Plaster, Samantha A. Price, Elizabeth A. Rigby, Janna Rist, Amber Teacher, Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds, John L. Gittleman, Georgina M. Mace, and Andy Purvis. 2009. PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals. Ecology 90:2648. http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E090/184/
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0.44
inter-birth interval
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/InterBirthInterval
- Definition: The length of time between successive births of a female.
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1277.5
litters per year
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/LittersPerYear
- Definition: Number of litters per female per year
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0.58
prenatal development duration
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/PrenatalDevelopmentDuration
- Definition: The duration of the development from fertilized, deposited or implanted egg to hatching/birth. Corresponds to egg incubation duration in oviparous animals and to gestation period duration in viviparous animals.
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22 days
social group size
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SocialGroupSize
- Definition: Number of individuals in a group that spends the majority of their time in a 24 hour cycle together where there is some indication that these individuals form a social cohesive unit.
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1
temperature in geographic range
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20.986

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Short-nosed echidna. View this species on GBIF

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Short Nosed Echidna

Tachyglossus aculeatus (Shaw 1792)

Short-nosed echidna includes 5 children: