Short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus. Echidna, Echidna hystrix. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by George Robert Waterhouse from his Marsupialia or Pouched Animals, Volume XI of the Naturalist’s Library, W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh, 1841. Waterhouse (1810-1888) was curator at the Zoological Society of London’s museum.

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