Species Profile
Echidna
Spiny anteater
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
It is found in Australia and New Guinea.
Lives in forests, grasslands, and deserts.
Important insect-eating mammal.
Size & Structure
01
Stocky body
02
Sharp spines
03
Long snout
04
Strong claws
Echidna — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- True coelom
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral symmetry
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Well-developed
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Homeothermic
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, double
- Development type
- Direct (oviparous)
- Respiratory type
- Lungs
- Mode of excretion
- Ureotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Controls ant and termite population
Soil aeration
Maintains ecosystem balance
Economic Importance
Conservation studies
Tourism symbol
Evolution research