Green-head ants are prey for a number of predators, including assassin bugs and the short-beaked echidna ( " Tachyglossus aculeatus " ), in the faeces of which have been found worker ants.
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Western long-beaked echidnas ( " Zaglossus bruijnii " ) possess only 2, 000 receptors and short-beaked echidnas ( " Tachyglossus aculeatus " ) merely 400 that are concentrated in the tip of the snout.
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Some of the recorded mammal species in the interior include the western grey kangaroo ( " Macropus fuliginosus " ), short-beaked echidna ( " Tachyglossus aculeatus " ) and spinifex hopping mouse ( " Notomys alexis " ).
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The "'Short-beaked Echidna "'( " Tachyglossus aculeatus " ), also commonly known as the "'spiny anteater "'because of its diet of ants and termites, is one of four living species of echidna and the only member of the genus " Tachyglossus ".
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The "'Short-beaked Echidna "'( " Tachyglossus aculeatus " ), also commonly known as the "'spiny anteater "'because of its diet of ants and termites, is one of four living species of echidna and the only member of the genus " Tachyglossus ".
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Other commonly encountered animals in this habitat include : Native honeybees, wallaroos ( " Macropus robustus " ), common echidnas ( " Tachyglossus aculeatus " ) as well as other far rarer species such as the koala ( " Phascolarctos cinereus " ), the dingo ( " Canis lupus dingo " ) or the predatory native marsupial the spotted quoll ( " Dasyurus maculatus spp . maculatus " ).
