Mammal
Platypus
The egg-laying, duck-billed mammal of Australia
Family Ornithorhynchidae
Ornithorhynchidae is a taxonomic family in the order Monotremata, class Mammalia. Global Animal Guide profiles one of its members: Platypus.
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