duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Query: Iconographia zoologica

Result: 1060^th of 1524

Subject:	duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
Poster:	Wiki Photos (---@---.---)

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Ornithorhynchus paradoxus
Date 1700-1880
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ornithorhynchus_paradoxus_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ20300172.tif

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.

Iconographia zoologica
1060/1524

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