duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

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

Feeding Platypus
Date 8 June 2010, 12:38
Source Feeding Platypus
Author Brisbane City Council http://www.flickr.com/people/50553864@N06
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feeding_Platypus_(6811147158).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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Scientific Name: Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799) Common Names: Platypus, Duck-billed Platypus; [French] Ornithorynque Synonyms: Platypus anatinus Shaw, 1799

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