Species profile—Ornithorhynchus anatinus (platypus)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Ornithorhynchidae (platypus) → Ornithorhynchus anatinus (platypus)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Ornithorhynchidae (platypus)
- Scientific name
- Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799)
- Common name
- platypus
- Type reference
- Shaw, G. (1799). Platypus anatinus. The Duck-billed Platypus. The Naturalist's Miscellany: containg accurate and elegant coloured figures of the most curious and beautiful productions in nature; with descriptions in Latin and English in the Linnaen manner. To which are added descriptions more at large and calclated for general information. Vol. 10 No. 118 London : F.P. Nodder & Co. 7 unnumbered pages of text pls 385-386.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 836
- Alternate name(s)
- duck-billed platypus
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- SL
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Venomous
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=836
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
