Platypus
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For other uses, see Platypus (disambiguation).
| Platypus[1] Temporal range: 66–0 Ma Late Cretaceous to Recent |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Monotremata |
| Family: | Ornithorhynchidae |
| Genus: | Ornithorhynchus Blumenbach, 1800 |
| Species: | O. anatinus |
| Binomial name | |
| Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799) |
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| Platypus range (blue — native, red — introduced) |
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