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Species
Platypus
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderMonotremata
- FamilyOrnithorhynchidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations4,672
Observations recorded25,696
via GBIF
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Ornithorhynchidae
- Image
- Duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) Scottsdale 2.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Ornithorhynchus
- Commons category
- Ornithorhynchus anatinus
- topic's main category
- Category:Ornithorhynchus anatinus
- taxon author citation
- Blumenbach, 1800
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
REDIRECT Platypus
Category:Monotypic mammal genera Category:Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ornithorhynchus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.