The platypus is sometimes known as a "duck-billed platypus", but this is a misnomer, as its bill serves a function quite different from that of a duck.
A platypus is a monotreme, i.e. an egg-laying mammal. It has dense, waterproof fur and a thick, beaver-like tail, but that is its only resemblance to a beaver.
It has short legs with webbed feet, and is well-equipped to hunt in the water, yet spends most of its time on land. Each foot has five toes with sharp claws, as it digs a burrow in the riverbank for shelter. When swimming, a membranous "web" extends between the toes. The male platypus has a venomous spur on its hind leg, which cannot kill a human but can cause extreme pain.
The platypus is shy and nocturnal, active mostly at dawn and dusk. It hunts for food underwater, using its duck-like bill, which is equipped with extremely sensitive electroreceptors to find food such as insect larvae, snails, worms, small fish, and crustaceans. It can remain underwater for between one and five minutes.
The platypus is found in freshwater creeks and rivers in eastern Australia, from sub-alpine regions in Tasmania north to the sub-tropical zone of north Queensland.
There is only one species of platypus, and that is Ormithorhynchus anatinus.
Platypuses which are found in Tasmania are the same species and go by the same name as platypuses from the Australian mainland - which are simply called platypuses.
The platypus is also not actually called a "duck billed platypus" at all. Its proper name is simply "platypus".
There is no other official name for the platypus, apart from their scientific name of Ornithorhynchus Anatinus.
Sometimes they are called a "duckbilled platypus".
The platypus is sometimes called a "duck-billed platypus", but this name is not used in Australia.
The duck-billed platypus has the scientific name is Ornithorhynchus anatinus.
A platypus is an egg laying mammal, or monotreme. Its actual species name is Ornithorhynchus anatinus.
Ornithorhynchus anatinusThe original name was Platypus anatinus, from Greek and Latin words meaning "flat-footed, duck-like". After realising that the name "platypus" had already be given to a group of beetles, the scientist involved assigned the platypus the scientific name of Ornithorhynchus anatinus, the first word of which means "bird-like snout".
The real name for the platypus is simply 'platypus'. Its real name is certainly not 'duck-billed platypus'.Its scientific name is Ornithorhynchus anatinus.
The species name of the platypus is ornithorhyncus.
There is no particular name for a female platypus.
No. There is no specific name for a male platypus.
The only type of platypus is simply known as a platypus. Its scientific name is Ornithorhynchus anatinus.
The platypus is called the platypus wherever one happens to be in Australia.
Platypus families do not have any particular name, because platypuses are generally solitary creatures which do not generally live in family groups, except for while the young are weaning. The family of the platypus is called Ornithorhynchidae.
There is no particular name for the male platypus. Unlike the males (or females) of some species, there is no special designation for the male platypus.
There is no such thing as a "Eucalyptus platypus".
There is just one species of platypus, Ornithorhynchus Anatinus. It is found only in Australia, and is the same species, whether it lives in the sub-alpine regions of the south, or in the tropical northern freshwater creeks. Platypuses are one of three species of monotremes, mammals that lay eggs.