Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Ornithorhynchus anatinus

Description

Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799). Nat. Mise., 10, pl. 385-386.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales, New Holland (= Sydney).

DISTRIBUTION: Queensland, New South Wales, SE South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania (Australia).

STATUS: Common but vulnerable to local extinction.

SYNONYMS: brevirostris, crispus, fuscus, laevis, novaehollandiae, paradoxus, phoxinus, rufus, triton.

COMMENTS: Name is commonly attributed to Shaw and Nodder, but Nodder was the publisher, not an author.

Notes

Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Monotremata, pp. 13 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353094

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Omithorhynchidae
Genus
Ornithorhynchus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Monotremata
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Shaw
Species
anatinus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799) sec. Groves, 1993