Ornithorhynchus anatinus

Ornithorhynchus anatinus est mammal familiae Ornithorhynchidarum ordinis Monotrematorum.

Ornithorhynchus anatinus ab Ioanne Gould pictus

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Animalia — Chordata

Subphylum : Vertebrata 
Superclassis : Tetrapoda 
Classis : Mammalia 
Subclassis : Prototheria 
Ordo : Monotremata 
Subordo : Platypoda 
Familia : Ornithorhynchidae 
Genus : Ornithorhynchus 

Ornithorhynchus anatinus
(Shaw, 1799)   

Pinacotheca

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  Ornithorhynchus anatinus

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  Ornithorhynchus natat

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  Ossa Ornithorhynchi

Distributio

Distributio Platypus

Omnes Ornithorhynchi viventes Australiam et Tasmaniam incolunt, olim in aliis partibus. Antiquissima vestigia plus quam decies centena milia annorum habent.

Bibliographia

• Augee, Michael L. 2001. Platypus. World Book Encyclopedia.
• Burrell, H. 1974. The Platypus. Adelaide: Rigby.
• Marshall, Ben. 2002. The Amazing Duckbilled Platypus. Novi Eboraci: New York Publishers.
• Grant, Tom. 1995. The platypus: a unique mammal. Sydneiae: University of New South Wales Press. ISBN 0-86840-143-9.
• Griffiths, Mervyn. 1978. The Biology of the Monotremes. Academic Press.
• Hutch, Michael, et Melissa C. McDade, eds. 2004. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. Detroit: Gale.
• Moyal, Ann. 2001. Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World. Vasingtoniae: Smithsonian Books. ISBN 1-56098-977-7.
• Strahan, R. 1995. The Mammals of Australia. New South Wales: Reed Books.
• Groves, C. P. 1993. Order Monotremata. In Wilson, D. E. & Reeder, D. M. (eds.) Mammal Species of the World, Ed. 2a.. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.: 13.
• Groves, C. P. 2005. Order Monotremata. In Wilson, D. E. & Reeder, D. M. (eds.) Mammal Species of the World, Ed. 3a. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.: 1-2.

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Ornithorhynchum anatinum spectant.

Vide "Ornithorhynchum anatinum" apud Vicispecies.

• Platypus-Evolution and Conservation apud Australian museum