Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney Author Parnaby, Harry E. Author Ingleby, Sandy Author Divljan, Anja text Records of the Australian Museum 2017 2017-10-06 69 5 277 420 http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653 journal article 231273 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653 f065976c-a96a-42d2-900a-ce5d788376e9 2201-4349 5237800 68F315FF-3FEB-410E-96EC-5F494510F440 Echidna (Tachyglossus) lawesii Ramsay, 1877b Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (ser. 1) 2(1): 32, 1 unnumbered plate. ( July 1877 ). Common name . Short-beaked Echidna . Current name . Tachyglossus aculeatus lawesii ( Ramsay, 1877b ) , following Groves (2005a) and Jackson & Groves (2015), who consider that subspecies of aculeatus and associated names require taxonomic clarification. Figure 1. AM PA.389, holotype skin of Echidna corealis Krefft, 1872a . (Photography by Sally Cowan). Figure 2. X-ray images of AM PA.389, holotype skull of Echidna corealis Krefft, 1872a ; (a) dorsal view, and (b) lateral view. (Images by James King). Holotype . PA.399 by subsequent determination. Skin mount, skull in situ , indeterminate sex from skin mount, given as male ( Ramsay ). Entered in A Register in March 1877 (predating allocation of registration numbers) as “1 Echidna sp nov. Port Moresby Rev J Lawes” and assigned a registration number in the Palmer Register in c. 1878. Condition . Skin mount in good condition, very sparse fur on ventrum below throat. It is not clear how much of the skull is retained in the skin mount. Type locality . Port Moresby district , Central Province, Papua New Guinea . Comments . Ramsay states that the description was based on a single, apparently adult, male specimen obtained from Port Moresby by Rev. Lawes some months prior to publication. The original entry by Palmer in the P Register is “? type of E. lawesi?” “ New Guinea ” but collector, sex of specimen, and more precise locality are not given.