duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Query: Mammals of australia

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Subject:	duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
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Fig. 356. Duckbill, Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, from Lutken.

Title: Text book of vertebrate zoology
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Kingsley, J. S. (John Sterling Kingsley), 1854-1929
Subjects: Vertebrates; Anatomy, Comparative
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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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