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duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
Subject: duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
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Ornithorhynchus fuscus - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ20300176.jpg
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duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)


Ornithorhynchus fuscus
Date 1700-1880
Source/Photographer Archiv fur Natur und Kunst
Old Latin name Ornithorhynchus fuscus
New Latin name Ornithorhyncus anatinus
Common name Nederlands: Vogelbekdier
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ornithorhynchus_fuscus_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ20300176.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.

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