duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Query: Mammals of australia

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Subject:	duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
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Date 1815
Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/10041163524
Author William Elford Leach; Frederick Polydore Nodder.; R P Nodder; George Shaw
Full title The zoological miscellany : being descriptions of new, or interesting animals / by William Elford Leach ; illustrated with coloured figures, drawn from nature by R.P. Nodder.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_zoological_miscellany_(10041163524).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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