duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Query: mammals of australia

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Subject:	duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
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ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS

Date 1848-1860
Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/7630012882
Author Zoological Society of London.; Zoological Society of London.
Full title Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proceedings_of_the_Zoological_Society_of_London_(Mammalia_Plate_LXXI)_(7630012882).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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