duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

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Subject:	duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
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Ornithorhynchus rufus. Peron.

Title: Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur
Year: 1774 (1770s)
Authors: Johann Christian Daniel Schreber, 1739-1810; Andreas Johann Wagner, 1797-1861; Georg August Goldfuss, 1782-1848
Subjects: Mammals
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_S%C3%A4ugthiere_in_Abbildungen_nach_der_Natur_(1774)_(20955363771).jpg

The platypus or duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It is one of the extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth.

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