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
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://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.
