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What is the scientific classification given to mammals that lay eggs?
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Mammals that lay eggs are called monotremes. They are placed in the infraclass and order Monotremata.
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∙ 12y agoEgg laying animals are Oviparous.
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What classification of animal lays eggs on land and has lungs other than birds reptiles or mammal?
There is no such classification. However, monotremes are a sub-classification of mammals, and include the platypus and the echidna. They are egg-laying mammals.
What bird is a mammal that lays eggs?
There is no such thing as a bird that is a mammal. Mammals are one classification, and birds are another. All birds lay eggs. Most mammals do not lay eggs. The only exceptions are the monotremes, which include just the platypus and the echidna.
What scientific name is given to those living beings who reproduce by laying eggs?
For all animals that reproduce by egg-laying, the word is "oviparous". The word for mammals that reproduce by laying eggs is "monotremes".
What is a bird that does not lay egg and is a mammal called?
There is no such thing. Mammals are one classification, and birds are another. All birds lay eggs. The platypus and the echidna are the only egg-laying mammals.
Are giraffe's eggs hard?
Giraffes are mammals. Mammals do not lay eggs.
Can you name a animal that give us eggs and mammals?
chickens give us eggs and the eggs have mammals inside. Platypus and echidna (monotremes, mammals that lay eggs)
How many eggs does a jaguar lay?
Jaguars are mammals. Mammals do not lay eggs.
Do white rhinos lay eggs?
No. Rabbits do not lay eggs. They are placental mammals. The only mammals which lay eggs are the monotremes, which include the platypus and the echidna.
Do mammals produce eggs?
Only two mammals produce eggs, the echidna and the platypus.
Do mammals bury eggs in sandsoil or rotting plants?
Mammals bury their eggs in sandsoil.
Are Arctic foxes born in eggs?
No, foxes are mammals and mammals aren't born in eggs.
Do the fertilized eggs of placental mammals have shells?
No, the fertilized eggs in mammals are always without shell and so in the case of placental mammals.
