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Post by Melanie on Feb 7, 2006 18:30:43 GMT
Zaglossus attenboroughi Flannery and Groves 1998 (long-beaked echidna from New Guinea) Named after well-known wildlife presenter David Attenborough. It is known from only one specimen collected in 1961 and may now be extinct. Source: home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy/taxEtym.html |
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Post by Melanie on Feb 7, 2006 18:53:52 GMT
The Cyclops long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) was considered endangered before it was split from the Papuan echidna (Zaglossus bruijnii) (IUCN 2000), and presumably would still be considered so because it is a focal prey item for humans (Flannery 1995; Flannery and Groves 1998; Bonaccorso et al., in press).
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Post by Melanie on Feb 7, 2006 19:01:51 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Feb 10, 2006 9:26:52 GMT
The Cyclops Long-beaked Echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) is one of three species from the genus Zaglossus to occur in New Guinea. It is named in honour of Sir David Attenborough, and is known as the Cyclops Long-beaked Echidna because it lived in the Cyclops mountains in Irian Jaya. It is the smallest member of the genus, being closer in size to the Short-beaked Echidna than other members of the genus. It has five claws on its fore and hind feet. It has dense short fur. Reference 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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops_Long-beaked_Echidna |
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Post by another specialist on Feb 10, 2006 9:28:30 GMT
1993 Orders Monotremata, Dasyuromorphia, Peramelemorphia, Notoryctemorphia, Diprotodontia. Pp. 13-14 and 29-62 in D.E. Wilson and D.A.M. Reeder (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Smithsonian Institution Press.
1999 (with T.F.Flannery). A revision of the genus Zaglossus (Monotremata, Tachyglossidae), with description of new species and subspecies. Mammalia, 62:367-396.
Description of Zaglossus attenboroughi new species, and two new subspecies of Z.bartoni.
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Post by another specialist on Feb 10, 2006 9:29:37 GMT
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Post by RSN on Feb 12, 2006 17:48:34 GMT
Zaglossus attenboroughi
Habitat: regions of Australia at higher elevation than highland forests
Era: the present
Conservation status: Endangered
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Post by david on Feb 13, 2006 15:49:16 GMT
shouldn't this be moved to endangered?
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Post by Melanie on Feb 13, 2006 18:39:03 GMT
No, as long there is no evidence of a rediscovery. Arkive is an authority and they say it is only known by one 1 specimen from 1961.
Note: there not even an entry for this species in the IUCN redlist. So i have not the foggiest idea why Planet-Mammiferes has written that it is endangered according to the IUCN.
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Post by another specialist on Feb 13, 2006 22:34:30 GMT
No, as long there is no evidence of a rediscovery. Arkive is an authority and they say it is only known by one 1 specimen from 1961. Note: there not even an entry for this species in the IUCN redlist. So i have not the foggiest idea why Planet-Mammiferes has written that it is endangered according to the IUCN. I agree with you Melanie - until we getany further information it should remain here. |
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Post by david on Feb 14, 2006 17:33:33 GMT
well I have always considered it endangered, not extinct.
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Post by Melanie on Feb 14, 2006 18:27:29 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Feb 14, 2006 19:54:08 GMT
pic from my photobucket album but from the above PDF file that Melanie Found  |
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Post by sebbe67 on Feb 9, 2007 22:27:39 GMT
EDGE aims to determine the status of this poorly-known echidna species, and make recommendations for the development of appropriate conservation measures to secure its future. Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna is known from a single specimen collected by a Dutch botanist in 1961, and currently held in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. The species is believed to be restricted to a single mountain peak in the Cyclops Mountains in the Indonesian province of Papua (on the island of New Guinea). There have been few systematic attempts to survey the flora and fauna of the Cyclops Mountains and no mammal surveys in the region since the type specimen was collected. The main threats to the species are not known, although other long-beaked echidnas are threatened by hunting and human encroachment onto their habitat. EDGE researchers with expertise in monitoring and assessing rare and cryptic mammal species aim to determine the status of the highly endangered Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna through a combination of active surveys and interviews with local people in the Cyclops Mountains Nature Reserve. This series of monitoring strategies will also provide extensive information on the distribution and population status of other poorly known and evolutionarily distinct mammal species present in the reserve and surrounding areas. These data will be used to assist in the development of a Conservation Action Plan for the Cyclops Mountains mammal fauna. www.edgeofexistence.org/conservation/attenboroughs_echidna.asp |
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Post by another specialist on Feb 13, 2007 9:29:45 GMT
The Cyclops Long-beaked Echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) is one of three species from the genus Zaglossus to occur in New Guinea. It is named in honour of Sir David Attenborough, and is known as the Cyclops Long-beaked Echidna because it lived in the Cyclops mountains in Irian Jaya. It is the smallest member of the genus, being closer in size to the Short-beaked Echidna than other members of the genus. It has five claws on its fore and hind feet. It has dense short fur. Reference 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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops_Long-beaked_EchidnaSir David's Long-beaked Echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), also known as the Cyclops Long-beaked Echidna, is one of three species from the genus Zaglossus to occur in New Guinea. It is named in honour of Sir David Attenborough. It lives in the Cyclops mountains in Papua province of Indonesia near the cities of Sentani, Jayapura. The species was described from a single damaged specimen collected in the Dutch colonial era (c. 1961), and has apparently not been collected since that time.[2] Given the ongoing anthropogenic disturbance of the Cyclops Mountain forest habitat, this has raised concern that Z. attenboroughi populations may already be endangered or even locally extirpated. However, it is important to note that biological surveys of Papua province are notoriously incomplete and it is possible that the animal still exists there or in related mountain ranges. It is the smallest member of the genus, being closer in size to the Short-beaked Echidna than other members of the genus. It has five claws on its fore and hind feet. It has dense short fur. References 1. ^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 2. ^ Flannery, T.F.; C.P. Groves (1998). "A revision of the genus Zaglossus (Monotremata, Tachyglossidae), with description of new species and subspecies". Mammalia 62 (3): 387-390. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_David's_Long-beaked_Echidna |
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Post by sebbe67 on Mar 22, 2007 15:21:35 GMT
Cyclops long-beaked Echidna Zaglossus attenboroughi Other common names: Attenboroughs long-beaked Echidna, Cyclops Echidna, Other scientific names: None Local names: None Was formerly included in Zaglossus bruijnii, but a species which quite recently was splited into three seperate species (Flannery and Groves  ?); geographic variability has long been recognised within Zaglossus Its the smallest species in the genus, being brown in colour with a fawn venter while feet, tail and forehead are yellow. Having a straighter and shorter beak than all other Zaglossus species, the fur is shorter, denser and finer than all other Zaglossus. This species is thought to be restricted to the higher peaks of the the Cyclops Mountains (West of Jayapura), North-east West Papua. It is probably a relict species of which its distribution dosent extend outside of this mountain range. Its clearly a species of high altitude species as mammal sampling in the lower altitudes of the Cyclops Mountains have failed to reveal the presence of this species. So far this species is only known from a single, adult specimen (unknown sex, but spurs at left ankle suggest it would be a male) collected by Mr P. Van Royen (Dutch naturalist) in July 1961. In 1990 a young hunter with hunted regulary in the Cyclops Mts was interviewed, he said he was unaware of the pressence of Zaglossus but that he had heard from elder hunters who reported that it inhabited the higher peaks. But still, interviews based on one hunter cant be enought evidence to claim that a species has vanished. A friend of mine spend several months in the Cyclops Mts in 2006, living in a village at the north-western edge of this range, he said he never encountered any living Zaglossus during his stay but that he saw several skulls and skins belonging to a member of the Zaglossus genus. He never ventured high enough to reach the assumed distribution of this species and was probably the main reason why he never encountered living specimens; it remains a slight possibily that the skulls and skins had been bought at markets in Jayapura and then brought to the village, howver its a very remote idea as the village was very remotely located and that parts of Zaglossus is very rarely offered at markets in Jayapura (based upon the fact that I have never encountered either bones or skins in over 40 visits to Jayapura markets). Its clearly a very restricted species and likely to be hunted by local tribes, the Zaglossus genus has showed to be very vulnerable to hunting and is today eleminted, or very rare in areas with high pressure and were human population is dense. However I cant imagine that many people inhabit the higher altitudes of Cyclops Mts, at most a few thousand, and aim sure that areas from where this species has been recorded is only visited occasionally by hunters as they are likely to focus hunting attention at lower altitudes were the number of species worth hunting is much higher. This relict species is of course not a common species and the population could well number the low hundred but I really dont see any reason why it should already have vanished, and yet even I found it quite unlikely there is a slight possibility that further populations may still persist in closeby Mountain ranges such as the Bewani Mountains (east of Jayapura, located on the West Papua-Papua New Guinea border). In recent years I have got noticed that the Edge of exstitence team are planning a survey in the short future to try determinate the current status of this species, and such a survey is clearly needed and could hopefully shade some light on other rare mammals that occur in the Cyclops. Searches further east in the Torrecelli Mts has however failed to reveal the presence of Zaglossus, on the other hand the hunting pressure in the Torricelli Mts in much higher than in borth Cyclops and Bewani Mts and this is the only area of these three were the mammal has been documented in some detail Timothy Flannery (1995) Mammals of New Guinea Iglezi Khunko pers comm |
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Post by another specialist on Apr 5, 2007 16:01:54 GMT
Hopefully this species has a good chance that it will be rediscovered
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Post by sebbe67 on Apr 17, 2007 16:59:24 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Apr 17, 2007 21:43:58 GMT
Thanks for the pic sebbe. Great to see it in colour.
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Post by sebbe67 on Jun 1, 2007 18:44:17 GMT
First attempts to relocate this species is currently underway. Jonathan is currently in West Papua, perhaps scaling the remote peaks of the Cyclops Mountains even as I write! He is hoping to make contact with local researchers and villagers and to assess the suitability of the mysterious mountain tips for next year’s planned mammal surveys focusing on the possibly extinct Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi). Jonathan has no access to email in the distant mountains so we eagerly await his return next month for news of this expedition. www.edgeofexistence.org/blog/?p=56 |
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