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echidna

family of monotreme mammals
Taxon Taxon Q21824
echidna
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Facts

12 properties
Instance of
taxon
Code of nomenclature
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[6]
Described by source
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7][8][9][10]
Egg incubation period
+10[19]
Has characteristic
viviparity, oviparity[11][12]
Litter size
+400[18]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]
Parent taxon
monotreme, Ornithorhynchoidea[3][4]
Taxon common name
Equidna, النَضْناض, قنفذ النمل, آكل النمل الشائك[13][14][15][16]
Taxon name
Tachyglossidae[5]
Taxon rank
family[2]
Time in the pouch
+50[20]
🏷️ Also known as
en echidnas en echidna en echidna family en tachyglossids en Tachyglossidae en tachyglossid en spiny anteaters en spiny anteater en hedgehog of the Colonists at Sidney ar آكل النمل الشائك ar قنفذ النمل ar نضناض cs ježurovití cs Tachyglossidae da Myrepindsvin de Tachyglossidae de Schnabeligel de Ameisenigel el Ταχυγλωσσίδες fa خارپشت بی‌دندان
🔖 Identifiers · 40
GND ID
4142180-2
ADW taxon ID
Tachyglossidae
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/5479
Australian Faunal Directory ID
Tachyglossidae
BOLD Systems taxon ID
1068
Catalogue of Life ID
GW2
EPPO Code
1TCHGF
Encyclopedia of Life ID
1680
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
animal/echidna-monotreme, animal/Tachyglossidae
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
echidne
Fossilworks taxon ID
39742
Freebase ID
/m/0kt8p
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GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)
5941
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
maurpinnsvin
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
ekhidny-mlekopitaiushchie-913dea
Harper's tag
tachyglossidae
INaturalist taxon ID
43237
IRMNG ID
104843
ITIS TSN
552308
Interlingual Index ID
i45148
J9U entity ID
987007553591905171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
echidnas
KBpedia ID
Echidna
Krugosvet article (archived)
nauka_i_tehnika/biologiya/EHIDNOVIE.html
Lex ID
myrepindsvin
Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID
sj96005403
MSW ID
10300002
MeSH descriptor ID
D004442
MeSH tree code
B01.050.150.900.649.627.300
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2776846482, 2909387058
Museum-digital tag ID
5524
NCBI taxonomy ID
9259
Open Tree of Life ID
344064
Paleobiology Database taxon ID
39742
Topic's main category
Category:Tachyglossidae
Vikidia article ID
fr:Échidné
Wellcome Collection concept ID
v6733zhc
WikiKids ID
Mierenegels
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
01875413-n
Yale LUX ID
concept/99f84750-d7f0-40e0-9fff-2a5cff51b2e8

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🔗 Connections
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
← Parent taxon 3
Zaglossus, Megalibgwilia, Tachyglossus
Has characteristic 2
viviparity, oviparity
Belongs to 1
Olly, Sid and Millie
Code of nomenclature 1
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
Has these parts 1
pouch
Instance of 1
taxon
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Parent taxon 1
monotreme
Taxon rank 1
family
Topic's main category 1
Category:Tachyglossidae
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Tachyglossidae
← Depicts 1
Knuckles the Echidna
← Found in taxon 1
pouch
← Main food source 1
dingo
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Summary

echidna is a taxon[1].

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  1. [2] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . sabencia.net. sabencia.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Name → —
    "Changed labels, descriptions or aliases: import labels from sitelinks"
  2. 7w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lex ID → myrepindsvin
    "Removed claim: Lex ID: myrepindsvin, дублирующееся значение / duplicate value"
  3. 8w ago · C960657 · 2026-09-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lex ID → myrepindsvin
    "Created claim: Lex ID: myrepindsvin"
  4. 19w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → tachyglossidae
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: tachyglossidae, Matched to tachyglossidae (#289961263) in Harper's…"
  5. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Time in the pouch → 50 day
    Litter size → 400
    Topic's main category → Category:Tachyglossidae
    Egg incubation period → 10 day
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007553591905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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