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Original – Duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) near Scottsdale, Tasmania Reason High quality large image. Illustrates article well. FP on Commons Articles in which this image appears Platypus, Monotreme FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals Creator Charlesjsharp
The colour of Platypus apicalis is mainly dark-brown, with yellow basal joint of antennae, metathorax and femora. The body is cylindrical in cross section and greatly elongated from front to rear. It is less than 2 mmm wide and about 5.8 mm long. [1] [2] The mandibles of adults are oriented downward.
Ornithorhynchoidea is a superfamily of mammals containing the only living monotremes, the platypus and the echidnas, as well as their closest fossil relatives, to the exclusion of more primitive fossil monotremes of uncertain affinity.
The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The platypus is the sole living representative or monotypic taxon of its family Ornithorhynchidae and genus Ornithorhynchus , though a number of related species appear ...
This contrasts with the modern platypus, where adults are entirely toothless. It has been theorized that the loss of teeth in the platypus was a geologically recent event, occurring only in the Pleistocene (after over 95 million years of tooth presence in the ornithorhynchid lineage) after the migration of the rakali ( Hydromys chrysogaster ...
English: This is the male platypus reproductive system. 1.Testes 2.Epididymis 3.Bladder 4.Rectum 5.Ureter 6.Vas Deferens 7.Genito - Urinary Sinus 8.Penis enclosed in a fibrous sheath 9.Cloaca 10.Opening in the ventral wall of the cloaca for the penis.
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Platypus quercivorus, the oak ambrosia beetle, is a species of weevil and pest of broad-leaved trees. [2] This species is most commonly known for vectoring the fungus responsible for excessive oak dieback in Japan since the 1980s. [ 3 ]